"Why was this amended?"Stephanie didn't know she had spoken out loud until she heard her words faintly reverberating in the empty room of her office.She stopped, listening, half expecting someone to tell her where to go.No one did.Yes. No one, she knew.The city outside was still alive, cars whispering past on wet asphalt, horns far away, a laugh here and there but the lobby, the building, were empty. Quiet. Watching.Stephanie returned to her monitor.The cursor pulsed steadily next to the revised line on the death certificate.It was as if she was counting down.She leaned in, peering through exhausted, stinging eyes that had been at work for hours."Amendment Filed: October 3, 2021"Her stomach tightened."That's not right," she murmured.This time her voice was smaller."Wrong."The word hung heavily in her chest.The death certificate for Martin had been issued in 2019. She remembered that day all too well, the crammed office and her hands trembling uncontrollably as she si
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