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” she called.

I stopped near the gate. “Good morning to you, too.”

Her husband, Grant, turned down the music. Conversations around the patio thinned into silence. My parents sat beneath a striped umbrella with Vanessa’s three children, two of Grant’s cousins, and several people I barely recognized.

Vanessa looked past me toward Noah and Ellie.

Then she continue reading …