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Daniel’s fingers tightened around the phone until Ruth took it from him.
She did not try to soothe him. She only held it because he had stopped holding it carefully.
Evelyn sat down again.
Her gold gown pooled around her knees. She looked suddenly younger than Daniel, though she was only three years behind him.
“I remember her asking about it,” she said.
Daniel turned.
Her voice was distant. She was not talking to anyone in particular.
“Mom came into my room that night. She had the blue robe on. The one with the frayed cuff. She asked if I’d seen Dad. I said he was downstairs. She said, ‘If Henry comes by, don’t let your brother think he did something wrong.’”
Daniel closed his eyes.
Evelyn pressed her hand against her mouth.
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“I thought she meant a dinner thing. I thought… I don’t know what I thought.”
“You were seventeen,” Ruth said softly.
