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“Sorry, I didn’t know you were her granddaughter. Don’t worry, keep looking and you’ll find her. Oh, right, I overheard my captain say she was talking about buying caramel candies for her granddaughter before she went missing.”
His words hit me like a wave. I remembered Grandma once told me her biggest regret was not getting me caramel candies the day I left.
Back then, when Gilbert and Sandra found me and took me away to give me a better life, Grandma had no choice but to let me go.
Everything happened so quickly, she didn’t have time to buy the candies near my high school.
Although she bought them for me many times afterward when I visited, she said she could never forget the look on my fa