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Vanessa’s lawyer lowered his head.
Outside the courthouse, the boys hugged me tightly.
“You did it, Grandma!” George said.
“No,” I replied softly. “We did.”
For the first time in a decade, the weight I had carried since that terrible night finally felt lighter.
And for the first time in years, our little family truly felt whole again.
I do not look back after the hotel vanishes behind the bend of the coastal road. The Gulf Shores night slides past the …
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