Grace popped another orange slice into my mouth.“I was just guessing. I wanted to get under your mom’s skin after everything she did to you. As for whether it’s true or not, who can say?”The sweet taste of orange washed away the bitter, foul taste of the concoction in my mouth.The men who had performed the so-called exorcism were charged with fraud and assault. They were ordered to pay me tens of thousands of dollars in compensation and were sentenced to three months in detention.My biological parents were detained for quite some time as well. After they were released, they went straight back to their hometown.Much later, I came across a news clip about them while scrolling through social media.It turned out my parents had taken Grace’s words to heart. Suspicious, they had returned to their hometown and confronted my grandparents.My grandparents denied everything.They even beat Richard with a cane, calling him an ungrateful son.It was my elderly great-grandfather, who
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