His Mother Called Me A Deadbeat At His Promotion Ceremony Until The Colonel Saluted Me First

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“No.”

I nodded once. “Good.”

My phone buzzed. Then immediately rang.

Ryan’s name on the screen.

I answered.

His voice came through broken and fast. “Emily, don’t go home.”

“Why?”

I heard wind. Traffic. Then, distantly, Diane screaming his name.

“Because,” Ryan whispered, “my mother just admitted she didn’t write the forged medical file in my packet.”

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