❝ –– perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. and when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture—must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. and suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
“You’re not broken. Yeah yeah, I get it. Now, can you leave me alone? Please. I really need to concentrate and get this finished already.”
Falling silent, Teddy gazed at this girl who claimed to be her daughter. People from a life she barely knew had told her the very same thing, but she was still having a hard time accepting it as the truth. After all, how did one get over losing the better part of the past fifteen years?
“I’m sorry,” she spoke at last, voice sober with her apology.“Did… Did I say something wrong?”
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