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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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the hallway with a paper cup of coffee he never drank.

Aaron arrived two hours later.

He had learned about the hospitalization through the medical portal before I removed his access.

Rachel had already helped me create written instructions permitting him to visit only under hospital supervision.

He entered the room looking thinner and older.

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