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Chapter 53

Author: Onyi Umeh
last update publish date: 2026-03-14 16:55:12

Edwin’s POV

The cemetery was smaller than I remembered.

It sat on the edge of the city, tucked behind a row of old oak trees that had stood longer than most of the buildings around it. The grass was too green for the season, the kind of artificial green that came from sprinklers and money. Rows of headstones stretched out in neat lines, some fresh, some worn smooth by decades of rain and wind. Mom’s plot was near the back, under a young maple that still had the bright leaves of early spring.

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