A Home After All
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Nothing remained.
No blood. No broken pieces. No sign that only hours earlier, a little girl had flown through the air and fallen there.
Only the streetlight still shone, its yellow glow falling across the empty crosswalk.
Dad stared at that patch of road for a long time.
"Let's go," Mom said softly.
Dad came back to himself and started the car again.
When they got home, everything was exactly as it had been.
The two Barbie dolls, one new and one cracked, still sat on the coffee table. Beside them was the cake box that no one had put away, and the slice of strawberry cake left for me. The air still smelled faintly sweet.
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