Where did you get that ring

admitted. “Just to make them stop looking at me that way.”

“But you didn’t.”

“No.”

“Then Henry gave you more strength than you realized.”

At noon, Margaret drove me not to a shelter, not to a senior program, not to Columbus.

She drove me to the Millford Police Department.

I did not want to go inside.

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