The Man They Threw Out of City Hall

the entire room disappeared from her face.

“Hello, Dad,” she whispered.

The audience gasped.

Elias’s hand went to his chest.

June Ward crossed the stage steps and walked toward him. Not fast. Not theatrically. But with the careful tenderness of someone approaching a wound that had never healed.

When she reached him, she took his trembling hand.

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