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Chapter 145 - Scars from the Past

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Liam

I watched my brother race across the tile floor and disappear through the International boarding gate.

Toward a future neither of us fully understood yet.

He looked lighter now. Different from the other day at the hospital when his shoulders were tight beneath the weight of grief and exhaustion.

Different from the service for Arianna when he had remained closed off and aloof refusing to even speak.

For a second, I just stood there. Watching him depart. Then the crowd swallowed him whole an
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Natasha Miller
Thought as much! So the only Maria and the siblings know and the rest must just suffer through the grief for someone that is not dead?
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ophilia monteiro
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Milleth Magbuhos Ramos
That was good. Feels really good.
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