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And Margot brought me a blanket and pretended not to notice I hadn’t moved in half an hour.
Around midnight, she stood in the doorway in her father’s old college sweatshirt and asked the question I’d been avoiding all evening.
“Is Dad coming back?”
She stared at me for a long moment. “That’s not what I asked.”
No, it wasn’t. But it was all I had.
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