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Chapter 246

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The Day Lily Learned the Baby Could Kick

It happened during dinner.

God.

A completely ordinary dinner.

Which, in hindsight, should have been suspicious.

Because extraordinary moments always seemed to arrive disguised as ordinary ones.

Fair.

The family sat together around the table.

The ocean glowed orange beneath the setting sun outside.

Everything peaceful.

Reasonable honestly.

Lily was busy explaining an important story about a seagull she had seen earlier.

Or possibly a cloud.

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