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Chapter 147 Cara Comes for Dinner

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Cara Oswald arrived at six o’clock on a Friday.

She did not ring the doorbell. She used the code. She walked into the entryway carrying a bottle of wine and a large, unwieldy box from a bakery in Portland. She took off her coat and hung it in the closet herself.

She was not a visitor. She was part of the household.

She had not been to Cedar Falls since late summer. She had said then that the kitchen had decided. She had been watching her brother live alone in a silent house for two years. Tonig
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