The Guard Asked Who They Were Here to See

In certainty.

“You can start by calling her Naomi,” I said. “Not ‘the girl.’ Not ‘your daughter.’ She has a name.”

His mouth tightened like that one landed where it should.

“Naomi,” he said.

The part that changed everything

People would probably say the thing that changed everything was the guard calling me Brigadier General.

It wasn’t.

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