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I had hoped my father would be someone important, whenever he lived, hoped one of the grand monuments would be reserved for him.
But none were. In fact, his name was not to be found anywhere.
As we finished our search, back to where we began at the entrance, I looked over, and realized that there was one last row of graves. It was the row closest to the street, closest to the entrance. We walked it slowly, stone to stone.
And there, at the very end, it was.
A tombstone: “Elizabeth Paine. Died 1692.”
It was the same Elizabeth Paine of Salem. The same woman of Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter. The same woman who, Caleb had told me, had mated with a vampire. The same woman who bore my last name. This
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