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PART 13: My Brother Sold Dad’s Watch for $40—But Its Secret Changed Our Family Forever

Story by Dramaverdict

Patricia looked at the ring for so long that Daniel began to lower the box.

She caught his wrist.

“Don’t.”

He stopped.

Her fingers moved over the back of his hand.

The skin was thin.

There were marks she had not known when she was young.

A small scar near his thumb.

A dark spot beside his wrist.

She studied them as though they belonged to a map she was still learning.

Then she looked up at him.

“Ask me again.”

Daniel’s mouth trembled.

“Pat?”

“Please.”

He swallowed.

Behind him, Laura pressed a hand to her lips.

Mom stood beside me in the corridor, holding my arm so tightly I could feel each finger.

Daniel lifted the box again.

“Will you marry me?”

This time, Patricia didn’t wait.

“Yes.”


It wasn’t a quiet yes.

It wasn’t careful.

It came out with a laugh caught inside it, followed by a sob she made no attempt to stop.

“Yes, Daniel.”

He stared at her.

For one awful second, I wondered whether he hadn’t heard.

Then his face changed.

He looked toward Laura.

“She said yes.”

Laura began laughing through her tears.

“I heard.”

Daniel turned back to Patricia.

“You’re sure?”

She shook her head at him.

“Oh, you foolish man.”

He looked frightened.

She leaned forward immediately and put her forehead against his.

“I have been sure for a very long time.”


She kissed him.

Not a quick kiss on the forehead.

Not the careful touch of someone comforting a sick man.

She held his face and kissed her husband.

Laura turned away.

Scott looked at the ceiling.

Mom cried without bothering to hide it.

I stood beside her and watched the little glass vase tremble when Daniel’s hand bumped the table.

One flower fell against another.

The toast grew cold.

Nobody cared.

When Patricia finally pulled back, Daniel was smiling in a way we hadn’t seen before.

Not relieved.

Not grateful that someone had come to visit.

Happy.

For that moment, he was simply happy.


Then Patricia looked inside the box.

She blinked.

“That’s your ring.”

Daniel looked down.

“Yes.”

She waited.

He frowned slightly.

Then he looked at Laura.

Laura began to laugh.

“I told him we didn’t need another ring for you.”

Patricia’s hand moved to her own.

She had worn it for years.

Taken it off sometimes when her hands swelled.

Put it in a little dish beside the bed.

Returned it to her finger when she could.

Daniel touched it.

“You kept it.”

Patricia looked at him.

“Of course I kept it.”

He stared at the worn gold.

Then he lowered his head and began to cry.


She moved her chair closer.

“Daniel.”

“I thought…”

His voice failed.

She waited.

He shook his head.

Patricia took the box from him and set it on the table.

Then she put both hands around his.

“We don’t have to do all the years this morning.”

He looked up.

“We’re having breakfast,” she said.

A little smile moved across his face.

“And apparently,” she added, “we’re getting married.”

He laughed.

It broke halfway through.

She laughed with him anyway.


We didn’t enter until Laura waved us in.

Mom went first.

She held Patricia.

Then Daniel.

Then stepped back, wiping her face with the same tissue she had been using for far too long.

Scott gave her a fresh one.

She took it without looking.

I hugged Patricia.

She felt warmer than she had in months.

As though some part of her had stopped standing outside in the cold.

“Well?” she asked.

“What?”

“Do you think I’m ridiculous?”

I looked at Daniel.

He was showing Mom his ring.

His hand shook.

Mom steadied it.

I turned back to Patricia.

“I think you’d better tell us what kind of cake you want.”

She began to laugh again.

And that was how the planning started.


At first, everyone tried to make it small.

Not because they wanted less for Patricia and Daniel.

Because they were afraid of asking too much.

Too much excitement.

Too much travel.

Too many people.

Too long a day.

Daniel listened to the first few suggestions.

Tea in his room.

A little cake.

Perhaps a photograph.

Then he looked at Patricia.

“Is that what you want?”

She hesitated.

He noticed.

It was one of the things returning between them.

The ability to hear what she hadn’t said.

“Pat?”

She smoothed her skirt.

“I’d like flowers.”

Laura smiled.

“We can have flowers.”

“And music.”

Mom nodded.

“Of course.”

Patricia looked almost embarrassed.

“And I don’t want to wear the same cardigan I’ve worn for every important thing since we found you.”

Daniel looked at the blue wool.

“I like that one.”

“I know.”

She touched his hand.

“But I’d like a dress.”

He nodded immediately.

“Then a dress.”


By the end of the morning, the little visit had become a gathering.

Not a new legal marriage.

They were still husband and wife.

A renewal.

A chance to speak promises with the people they had become.

Patricia wanted a garden if the weather held.

Daniel wanted chairs for everyone.

“Not just me,” he said.

Laura wrote it down.

Mom offered to make something.

Patricia said she was not spending the day of the ceremony looking for Margaret Brennan in a kitchen.

Mom opened her mouth.

Patricia lifted a finger.

“No.”

Mom closed it again.

Scott looked at me.

We both smiled.

It was good to see someone finally win that argument.


The date was chosen for six weeks later.

Long enough to arrange things.

Soon enough that nobody could begin treating happiness like another task that needed perfect conditions.

The residence offered the use of its garden room and courtyard.

Wide doors.

Level paths.

A place Daniel could rest.

A familiar staff member nearby.

Patricia went to see it with Laura.

There were climbing roses along one wall.

A small fountain that didn’t work.

A pear tree visible beyond the fence.

She stood beneath the glass roof and looked around.

Then she said, “Here.”

Laura asked whether she wanted to visit somewhere else first.

Patricia shook her head.

“I know where he can sit when he gets tired.”

She pointed toward a quiet corner.

“I know where the light will come in.”

Then her voice softened.

“And I know he won’t be frightened about getting back.”

Laura took her hand.

So that was where it would happen.


Mom offered Patricia her wedding veil.

It had been wrapped in tissue at the back of a wardrobe for decades.

When she brought it out, I expected Patricia to refuse.

Instead, she touched the edge.

“May I look?”

Mom nodded.

They spread it across the bed.

The netting had yellowed slightly.

One comb was missing a tooth.

Patricia smiled.

“You were such a pretty bride.”

Mom laughed softly.

“Harold said he couldn’t see me through all this.”

“Did he lift it?”

“Too early.”

Patricia looked up.

Mom’s smile trembled.

“He said he wanted to make sure it was still me.”

For a moment, both women went quiet.

Then Patricia took Mom’s hand.

“I wish he could be there.”

Mom nodded.

“So do I.”


Patricia didn’t wear the veil.

She said it belonged to Mom’s wedding.

But she asked whether she could borrow a small pin attached to its wrapping.

A plain pearl set in silver.

Mom looked at it.

“I’d forgotten that.”

“Was it your mother’s?”

“Yes.”

“Then I’d like to borrow it.”

Mom nodded.

Then she fastened it to a little square of cloth so it wouldn’t be lost.

That evening, I found her sitting beside Dad’s watch.

The veil lay across her lap.

“Are you all right?” I asked.

She looked up.

“Yes.”

I waited.

She smiled a little.

“And no.”

I sat beside her.

For once, she didn’t try to give me a better answer.


Scott was given one job.

A small table for the rings and flowers.

Nothing elaborate.

Nothing so heavy that people had to struggle to move it.

Patricia said it could be borrowed.

Scott said he had something suitable.

He didn’t.

Not yet.

He found a piece of walnut he had been saving.

Not Dad’s old piece.

His own.

Bought with money earned at the workshop.

He stood it against the bench for two days before cutting.

I noticed the drawings.

The measurements.

The eraser marks.

“You’re making furniture,” I said, “not negotiating a treaty.”

He looked at the paper.

“I know.”

“Then why do you look terrified?”

He ran a hand over his hair.

“Because this one matters.”

I leaned against the doorway.

“They all matter to someone.”

He looked at me.

Then, slowly, he smiled.

“Yeah.”


He built the table on evenings after work.

Simple legs.

A narrow top.

Smooth edges.

He chose not to decorate it.

The grain was enough.

Ben helped with sanding.

Ed came into the back room three times a day to offer opinions Scott hadn’t requested.

Mrs. Ellis inspected the finish.

Ruth Mercer brought food and claimed she had made too much.

By then, nobody believed that excuse.

Scott accepted it anyway.

The table became one of those things that somehow belonged to everyone before it was finished.

When Patricia saw it, she put a hand over her mouth.

“It was only supposed to hold two rings.”

Scott looked embarrassed.

“It will.”

She ran her fingers along the edge.

Then she hugged him.

He stood very still.

After a moment, he hugged her back.


The invitation list was harder.

Not because there were too many names.

Because each one seemed to ask another question.

Arthur Lane was invited.

Peter Canning too.

Elaine received an invitation in the post.

She called Patricia to say she wasn’t certain she should come.

Patricia listened.

Then answered, “Daniel asked whether you were coming.”

Elaine went quiet.

“He did?”

“Yes.”

“Does he know who I am?”

“Yes.”

A long silence followed.

Then Elaine said she would come.

Rose was not invited.

Patricia wrote her a note before the invitations went out.

Not because she owed an explanation.

Because she did not want her sister hearing it through someone else.

We are renewing our vows.

You will not be there.

This is not a day on which I can take care of your feelings.

Rose replied with two words.

I understand.

Patricia read them.

Then put the note away.


A week later, Rose asked Mr. Cole whether she could send a gift.

Patricia said no.

Laura agreed.

The answer passed back without discussion.

I expected that to be the end.

Then Rose sent a folder to the investigator.

No flowers.

No money.

No apology written over the top of something pretty.

Inside were dates.

Names.

Her best account of conversations she had avoided remembering.

She identified the handwriting on more returned envelopes.

She described Walter’s office.

The cabinet where he kept private files.

A solicitor he had used.

An employee who might still be alive.

When Mr. Cole told Patricia, she nodded.

“That is what she can give.”

Nothing in her voice suggested forgiveness.

But she sounded certain.

That mattered too.


Laura took her mother shopping for a dress.

Mom and I went because Patricia said she wanted witnesses in case Laura tried to make her look like a curtain.

The first shop had too many mirrors.

The second had a woman who kept calling Patricia darling in a voice that made all of us tense.

The third was quiet.

A small place with dresses arranged by colour instead of occasion.

Patricia found a soft green one.

Not white.

Not blue.

Green.

She held it against herself.

Laura stopped speaking.

“What?” Patricia asked.

“Try it.”

Patricia disappeared behind a curtain.

When she came out, Mom began crying.

Patricia sighed.

“Oh, Margaret.”

Mom nodded, wiping her eyes.

“I know.”

But none of us asked her to stop.


The dress fit.

Almost.

A small alteration at the shoulder.

A hem shortened enough that Patricia wouldn’t worry about stepping on it.

She stood in front of the mirror.

Turned slightly.

Touched the sleeve.

“I don’t look like a bride.”

Laura stood behind her.

“You look like yourself.”

Patricia looked at her daughter in the glass.

For a long moment, she said nothing.

Then she nodded.

“Yes.”

She bought the dress.

On the way home, she held the bag on her lap instead of putting it in the boot.

I watched her through the mirror.

Once, at a red light, she opened the top just enough to look inside.

Then she closed it again.

Smiling.


Daniel had fewer choices.

A suit made him uncomfortable.

The jacket pulled at his shoulders.

The trousers needed more work than anyone wanted to admit.

After half an hour, he looked at Laura and said, “Can I just be clean?”

She laughed.

Then kissed his cheek.

“Yes, Dad.”

They chose dark trousers.

A cream shirt.

A soft jacket he could take off.

Scott helped him choose a tie.

That took longer.

Not because Daniel cared.

Because Scott did.

One was too bright.

Another too dark.

A third made Ed laugh so hard he had to sit down.

Finally, Daniel held up a plain blue one.

“Pat likes this.”

Scott stopped.

Then nodded.

“That’s the one.”


The week before the ceremony, Daniel asked to see Mr. Cole alone.

Patricia agreed.

She waited in the garden.

Laura sat beside her.

Nobody assumed the worst.

That was progress.

Afterward, Mr. Cole told them Daniel wanted his wishes properly recorded.

Who should be contacted.

Who could help him understand documents.

Where his belongings should go.

Who should speak for him if he couldn’t speak for himself.

Not because anyone expected something terrible.

Because too much of his life had passed with other names filling spaces that should have held his own choices.

Patricia listened.

Then she looked at Daniel.

“Did you say what you wanted?”

He nodded.

“Yes.”

She smiled.

“Good.”


He had also written something for the ceremony.

That part remained private.

Laura helped him hold the paper steady.

Not write the words.

He insisted on that.

She only wrote down a sentence when his hand became too tired.

Then read it back.

He changed things.

Crossed out more.

At one point, he asked whether it sounded foolish.

Laura shook her head.

“It sounds like you.”

He looked relieved.

Then he asked for another sheet.

The first version had too much about what they lost.

He didn’t want to stand in front of Patricia and make her carry all of it again.

So he began a second.


Mom struggled with the wedding.

Not visibly at first.

She helped choose flowers.

Checked whether Ed had a clean shirt.

Reminded Scott to collect the table covers.

Then, three days before the ceremony, I found her sitting on the bedroom floor.

Dad’s shoes were beside her.

She had opened the wardrobe to find a shawl.

Instead, she found them.

Polished.

Laces tucked inside.

Waiting in that terrible way ordinary things wait after someone dies.

I sat down.

She didn’t look at me.

“I’m glad for them.”

“I know.”

“I don’t want him to be gone more just because Daniel came back.”

I put my arm around her.

She leaned against me.

For a long time, that was enough.


On the morning of the ceremony, she wore the shawl.

A pale one Dad had bought her because he said the house was always either too hot for him or too cold for her.

She fastened it without explaining.

I knew anyway.

Then she took the watch box from the sideboard.

Held it.

Put it down.

Picked it up again.

“Should I?”

I looked at her.

“What do you want?”

She ran a finger along the walnut lid.

“I want him there.”

“Then bring it.”

She nodded.

This time, she didn’t ask anyone else.


The garden room smelled of flowers and warm bread.

Nothing grand.

White tablecloths.

Green stems.

A few pale roses.

Scott’s table stood near the window.

Two chairs waited beneath the climbing flowers.

There was space around them.

Room for Daniel to move without being watched.

Room for Patricia to sit whenever she wanted.

Ed arrived early carrying a cake box as though it contained something breakable and alive.

Mrs. Ellis told him to put it down before his face frightened the cake.

Ben moved chairs.

Peter checked the music.

Elaine stood at the entrance holding a small bunch of flowers.

Mom went to her.

Took them.

Kissed her cheek.

Then found her a seat.


Patricia dressed in a room off the corridor.

Laura fastened the pearl pin.

I helped with the hem.

Mom stood behind her and adjusted one small fold at the shoulder.

Patricia looked in the mirror.

Then at us.

“Well?”

Laura smiled.

“Green was right.”

Patricia laughed softly.

Then touched the pin.

Mom’s eyes filled.

Patricia caught her hand before she could step away.

“You don’t have to be happy every second today.”

Mom looked at her.

Neither said anything for a moment.

Then Mom nodded.

Patricia squeezed her fingers.

“There’s room.”


Daniel waited near the garden doors.

Scott stood beside him.

The blue tie sat straight.

For once.

He had refused to let anyone adjust it again.

Arthur Lane sat in the second row.

Ed beside him.

Peter near the aisle.

Ruth and Ben farther back.

People brought together by work.

By loss.

By one returned object.

By an answer given when it would have been easier not to answer.

Daniel looked at the chairs.

At the flowers.

At Scott.

“Enough?”

Scott frowned.

“What?”

“For her.”

Scott looked around.

Then back at him.

“Yes.”

Daniel nodded.

But he kept watching the door.


The music began quietly.

A song Patricia had chosen.

One she and Daniel used to hear on the radio while getting ready for work.

Nothing written for a ceremony.

Nothing about perfect love.

Just a familiar melody that made Daniel lift his head.

Laura walked beside her mother.

Not giving her away.

Not leading her.

Keeping pace.

Patricia held her daughter’s arm.

The green dress moved softly around her knees.

When Daniel saw her, he tried to stand.

Scott helped.

Patricia shook her head at both of them.

But she was smiling.

So they let him stand.

Just long enough to take her hand.


“You came,” he whispered.

Patricia’s expression changed.

So slightly that most people wouldn’t have noticed.

I did.

Laura did.

She had heard those words so often since the reunion.

At the residence.

At breakfast.

After a night apart.

Each time, she answered patiently.

This time, she put her other hand over his.

“I’m staying for this part.”

Daniel smiled.

Then they sat together beneath the flowers.

Their knees almost touched.

Patricia moved her chair closer until they did.


The woman leading the ceremony spoke briefly.

She didn’t pretend this was the beginning.

She didn’t list every terrible thing that had happened.

She spoke about promises made by young people who couldn’t know what they would be asked to endure.

Then about promises made again by people who knew much more.

Patricia listened with her head slightly bowed.

Daniel held her hand.

When it was his turn, Laura brought the paper.

He unfolded it slowly.

His fingers shook.

Nobody filled the silence.

Nobody told him to take his time.

They simply gave it to him.


“Pat.”

He stopped.

Looked up.

Then continued.

“When we got married, I promised to look after you.”

Patricia’s mouth trembled.

“I thought that meant I would be strong. I thought it meant I would know what to do.”

He lowered the page a little.

“I didn’t.”

The room was completely quiet.

“I have spent a long time wishing I could arrive at your door young enough to make the same promises in the same voice.”

Patricia began crying.

Daniel looked at her.

“I can’t.”

He drew a breath.

“But I can tell you when I am frightened.”

Mom closed her eyes.

“I can ask instead of guessing.”

Scott lowered his head.

“And when you say you will come back, I can try to believe you.”

Patricia pressed his hand between both of hers.


He looked down at the paper again.

Then shook his head.

Folded it.

The last words came without reading.

“I don’t have all the years we wanted.”

Patricia leaned toward him.

“But whatever there is, I would like to be your husband in it.”

She began laughing through her tears.

“You already are.”

He smiled.

“Yes.”

Then, very softly:

“I’d like to be where you can see me.”

Patricia bent and kissed his hand.

Behind me, Ed made a sound and pretended it was a cough.

Nobody believed him.


Patricia had written nothing.

She told Laura she couldn’t find a sentence that didn’t sound too small or too angry.

Now she looked at Daniel.

For a moment, I thought she might simply say yes again.

Instead, she took a breath.

“I promise I will not spend every day asking us to make up for the ones we lost.”

Daniel watched her.

“I don’t know how well I’ll do that.”

A little laughter moved through the room.

“But I promise to try.”

She wiped her face.

“I promise to tell you when I’m tired.”

Laura nodded through her tears.

“I promise not to turn being your wife into proving that I can do everything alone.”

Mom reached for my hand.

“And I promise that when I’m angry, I will tell you what I’m angry about.”

Daniel smiled faintly.

“You always did.”

Patricia laughed.

“Yes. Well. There’s no reason to abandon the useful habits.”


Then her voice softened.

“I thought loving you meant waiting.”

She looked down at their joined hands.

“For a long time, that was all I could do.”

Daniel’s eyes filled.

“But I don’t want waiting to be the only thing we know how to do together.”

She moved closer.

“So I promise breakfast.”

A laugh broke out through the tears.

“Ordinary visits.”

Daniel nodded.

“Bad television.”

He smiled.

“And I promise to let us have a good day without apologizing to the years that didn’t.”

That was the sentence that undid Mom.

She began crying openly.

I held her.

And beneath the flowers, Patricia finished.

“I wanted you then.”

She touched Daniel’s cheek.

“I want you now.”


Laura carried the rings.

Her moon pendant caught the light when she bent toward them.

Patricia removed her ring for the first time that morning.

Daniel held it.

Looked at the gold worn by years he had not seen.

Then he placed it back on her finger.

Slowly.

With help.

Patricia took his.

The cleaned band shone briefly.

She guided it over his knuckle.

Neither fit as easily as they had when they were young.

Nobody called attention to it.

They found a way.

When both rings were in place, Daniel looked at their hands.

Then at Patricia.

“Still you.”

She smiled.

“Still me.”


Afterward, nobody knew whether to clap.

Then Ed started.

One loud, unembarrassed pair of hands.

Everyone joined him.

Patricia laughed.

Daniel looked startled.

Then pleased.

Then he lifted Patricia’s hand and kissed it.

The music began again.

Laura bent to hug them.

Mom went next.

When she reached Daniel, he took her hand.

“Margaret.”

She nodded.

He glanced toward the little walnut box beside the flowers.

Dad’s watch rested inside.

Mom had placed it there before the ceremony.

“He got us here,” Daniel said.

Mom’s face crumpled.

“Part of the way.”

Daniel looked at her.

Then nodded.

“Yes.”

And somehow, that was kinder than pretending.


The meal was noisy.

Not loud enough to overwhelm Daniel.

But full.

Plates passing.

Chairs moving.

People introducing themselves to people whose names they had heard for months.

Arthur and Ed discovered they had grown up two streets apart.

Peter listened while Mom described his mother’s diary.

Elaine sat beside Laura.

At first, both seemed careful.

Then Laura asked whether Elaine had siblings.

An ordinary question.

Elaine answered.

After a while, they were talking about a difficult brother-in-law and a recipe that never worked.

I watched them for a moment.

Then turned away.

They didn’t need an audience for that either.


Scott said nothing about the table.

He checked once that it stood level.

Then forgot about it.

Or tried to.

After the meal, Patricia called him over.

He crouched beside her chair.

“Everything all right?”

She nodded.

Then put an envelope in his hand.

He stiffened.

“No.”

“You haven’t opened it.”

“I’m not taking money.”

“It isn’t money.”

He looked at her.

“Then what?”

“A photograph.”

Inside was the picture I had taken months earlier.

Scott’s hand.

His initials beside Dad’s.

S.B.

H.B.

Patricia had written on the back.

Thank you for helping us put something back together.

Scott stared at it.

Then he folded the envelope shut because he couldn’t bear to keep looking.


Near the end of the afternoon, Daniel asked for music.

Not the ceremony song.

Something else.

Patricia looked at him.

“You’re tired.”

“I know.”

“You should sit.”

“I am sitting.”

A little laughter moved around the table.

Then he held out his hand.

Patricia stared.

“Oh, Daniel.”

“Just a little.”

She stood.

Scott moved a chair out of the way.

Daniel remained seated.

Patricia stood close.

He held one hand.

Rested the other against her waist as well as he could.

She swayed.

Barely.

A small movement.

A remembered rhythm.

Her forehead lowered toward his.

And they danced.


Nobody took a video at first.

Then Laura lifted her phone.

Her hands shook too much.

I steadied them.

She looked at me.

I nodded.

Record it.

So she did.

Not every second.

Just enough.

Her parents.

Together.

Not in a recovered photograph.

Not described in somebody else’s notebook.

Moving in the light of an ordinary afternoon.

When the song ended, Daniel looked exhausted.

Patricia sat immediately.

Took his hand.

He closed his eyes.

Still smiling.

She stayed beside him until he opened them again.


We left in stages.

Flowers were divided.

Food packed.

The cake somehow became six separate parcels, each larger than Ed claimed was reasonable.

Mom gave one to Arthur.

Another to Peter.

A third to Elaine.

Then she put two in Ed’s hands.

He looked at her.

“Why am I getting the heavy end of every arrangement?”

“Because you complain so nicely.”

He shook his head.

But he carried them.

Scott loaded the little table into his truck.

Patricia stopped him.

“Not that.”

He turned.

She looked toward Daniel’s room.

“We’d like to keep it.”

Scott’s face changed.

“For what?”

Patricia smiled.

“Breakfast.”


That evening, the house was quiet.

Mom took off her shoes by the door.

Put the shawl across the back of Dad’s chair.

Then carried the watch box to the sideboard.

I stood nearby.

She opened it.

Touched the steel casing.

For a long time, she said nothing.

Then she whispered, “You would have cried.”

I smiled.

“Yes.”

She laughed softly.

“And claimed there was something in your eye.”

“Definitely.”

Mom closed the lid.

This time, she didn’t look as though she were putting him away.

She looked as though she were telling him about her day.


Three mornings later, Patricia called while I was making coffee.

Her voice sounded different.

Not frightened.

Not breathless.

Curious.

“Jenny, do you have a minute?”

“Of course.”

“Daniel wants to go somewhere.”

I leaned against the counter.

“Where?”

“The river.”

I thought of the little white stone.

The moon pendant.

The drawing.

“Of course he does.”

Patricia laughed softly.

“Yes.”

Then she became quiet.

“He says there was a promise before all the other promises.”

“What promise?”

“He won’t tell me.”

I smiled.

“That sounds suspicious.”

“I told him that.”

“What did he say?”

Patricia’s voice trembled with a happiness she still seemed surprised to hear in herself.

“He said this time, I’m allowed to come along and find out.”

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