I didn’t belong.

“I became like her,” he said.

He looked at me.

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“That doesn’t make what I did to you okay.”

He nodded.

Then he said, “I’m going to keep fixing it anyway.”

And he did.

Not dramatically.

Not perfectly.

But consistently.

He rebuilt a relationship with his father slowly.

Chloe joined him six months later after learning the truth.

Deborah sold Unit 9B the following spring.

Susan bought it from her.

I laughed when I heard.

Apparently Susan