The wife he left behind
The woman looked at the drawing through the plastic, and her hand came up slowly to her mouth.
“May I see that properly,” she said softly.
Priya handed it to her, carefully, and the woman held it the way everyone held things this week, like it might dissolve if she wasn’t careful enough.
She looked at it for a long time.
“I know this drawing,” she said finally, her voice very quiet. “Not this exact one. But one like it. My mother had one too. The same house. The same row of figures.” She looked up, and her eyes were wet now. “My mother used to say her sister sent it to her, once, a long time ago, before they lost touch completely. She kept it for years. I don’t know what happened to it after
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