MY HUSBAND TOLD ME I’D GO BACK TO NOTHING

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“Stopped how,” Eleanor said.

“Stopped like somebody erased it.” Kroger lit a cigarette with two tries. “Records destroyed in a fire at the agency in 2003. Real convenient fire. The kind of fire that happens to records and nothing else.”

I looked at the page. There was a photocopy of a hospital footprint, a tiny inked foot the size of my thumb.

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