Sierra's POVThe year I turned seventy was the year I finally understood what peace meant.Not the absence of trouble. Not the quiet after a storm. Just... peace. Deep in my bones. Settled in my heart.Louis was seventy-three. His hair was completely white now. Mine too, though I still dyed it sometimes, just to feel young.We lived in two places now. The main house in the city, where we'd been through so much. And the lake house, where we went to breathe.The kids were grown. Will was thirty-one, married to Chloe, with two kids of his own. Katie was forty-three, a grandmother herself now. Our family tree kept growing, branches spreading in every direction.I loved watching it. All these people, connected by blood and love and history. All of them carrying pieces of us forward.---One afternoon, Will came to visit with the grandkids.Lily was eight. Smart and sassy, like Katie at that age. Leo was five. Wild and curious, like Will had been.They ran through the house, chasing each o
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