PART 2 – The morning sun slanted through the tall windows of Ridgewood Elementary, painting the linoleum floors in watery gold. Parents clustered in the hallway like cautious birds, trading lunch plans and soccer schedules, their voices a low hum of ordinary life. When the door at the far end swung open, the hum fractured.
The girl’s small fingers tightened around her father’s. “I remember, Daddy,” she whispered back, her voice barely louder than the
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