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My six-year-old nephew dragged his broken leg across seven blocks of pavement to reach my porch, with his starving three-year-old sister clinging to his shirt. I was fixing a loose hinge when I heard scraping on the steps and turned to see Drew crawling toward me, pale, shaking, and whispering, “She locked us downstairs again.” I called 911 before I even understood the whole story. But when he told me about Reena’s punishment room, I knew my brother had died believing a terrible lie.

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Rachel advised me to file an identity-theft report immediately.

I did.

Then I called Aaron.

He answered on the second ring.

“Are you ready to talk like adults?”

“Did you open credit accounts in my name?”

Silence.

I heard a television in the background and Patricia speaking somewhere nearby.

“Aaron?”

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