show up if something had happened.
Her living room was the opposite of Mom’s mountain cabin—bright, crowded, toy-strewn. A half-eaten bag of crackers on the couch. A school project leaning against a lamp. A sticky little handprint on the window that no one had the energy to wipe off.
Life. Loud life.
My sister paced like a trapped animal.
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