My Granddaughter Was Left Behind While They Went on Vacation So I Showed Up the Next Day

red sweaters for her and Daddy and Alex. She forgot mine.” A shrug. “She said she ordered one but it didn’t come in time. So I wore my school sweater.” The blue one. The sweater I had seen in the frame on that wall. “Arya said I looked the best because I stood out,” she added.

I smiled in spite of everything. “Arya sounds smart.”

“She is.”

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