THE BRIDE THEY GAVE AWAY
“That is not my place to say, Mrs. Harlow.”
“Fair enough,” Nora said.
They continued the tour, and Nora stored the answer — not what Margaret had said, but what she hadn’t — in the growing file she was building in her mind, labeled with this house and everything it was keeping from her.
Her clothes arrived at noon.
Two men she did not recognize brought boxes from her mother’s house, her things packed by someone else, folded without care for what mattered to her and what didn’t. She unpacked them in the bedroom slowly, filling the empty wardrobe with pieces of her old life. At the bottom of the last box, wrapped in an old cloth, was a small framed photo, herself and Claire, years ago, both of
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