My Father’s Midnight Call Saved Us—But I Wish I’d Never Looked Out the Window

this purpose, because it had. She held a suppressed pistol with a grip so steady and so practiced that the weapon looked like an extension of her hand rather than something she was holding—the grip of a person who has trained with firearms not for months but for years, not recreationally but professionally, not in a country that was ours.

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