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Chapter 85 - The Brother
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2026-05-04 02:42:34Eliza's POV
The photograph stayed in my hand all night. I couldn't put it down. Couldn't look away. The face staring back at me was a stranger's, but the eyes those were my mother's eyes. The same shape, the same depth, the same shadow of sorrow I'd seen in every picture she'd left behind. Thirty-five years old. My brother. He'd been alive this whole time. Living somewhere. Breathing somewhere. Maybe wondering where he came from, wh
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