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“But it didn’t last.”
I thought the worst part had been watching a grown woman destroy a child’s way into the world because she didn’t like how it looked.
But the next morning, several black SUVs pulled up on our street, and everything changed.
She opened it with the bright, polished smile of a woman who expected to impress them.
Then one of the men said something I couldn’t hear, and her smile vanished.
Across the street, Renee stood in her doorway, calm in a way that made me realize she already knew what this was.
“We’re here representing the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Global Kindness.”
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