with Thomas, she shouldn’t expect to come home again.”
I could hear Dad saying those words in my imagination.
Not because I had heard them before.
Because they sounded exactly like something he would have said.
“What did Laura do?”
“She thought he was bluffing.”
“And?”
“She left.”
I looked away.
For decades, I had convinced myself someone must have taken my sister.
I had never seriously considered that she had left willingly after an argument, believing she could fix everything later.
“How long did she stay with Thomas?”
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