One Sentence Across the Table

see where we came from.”

There it was.

Not the whole thing, but the root.

Hammond. The garage. Dad’s hands cracked open in winter. Mom buying generic cereal from bent-box shelves. Me with steel-toe boots in family photos. Rebecca had spent her whole adult life sanding those edges off herself until she could pass as someone who’d never had any.

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