Megan’s POVBringing Stella back home felt like carrying something delicate. A step in the wrong direction and she might bend, or break, or disappear again. I kept on checking her, checking her breath, checking her eyes, checking the manner her fingers were curling in her lap in the passenger seat.But she no longer had a bewildered expression, nor was she so scared as before. Maybe because she knew she was with me. Maybe because she remembered me. That thought alone almost made me cry again.As I drove into the driveway she gazed about her with her eyes on the little house, as though she had never seen it. Maybe she had. Maybe she had not. Her memories were sewing together, sloppily making, like threads, awaiting to break.The porch light was on. And a man sat on the steps and elbows on his knees, striding between his hands as though he had been sitting there all hours.Jimmy.As soon as he spotted the lights in the cars, he stood.The second Stella stepped out, he froze.Then her br
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