Embark
ON A HIKING
adventure and explore the beauty of nature’s best…
In the
WOODS.
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PART 2 I didn’t think. I just knelt down and held out the cookie. “Hey, Benny!” I said, loud and cheerful. “Come get your cookie, buddy!” Benny let go of his mom’s leg and ran straight past Rhett, out the door, into my arms.
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PART 2 I forgot Crowder was even there. I rolled Reggie onto his back on the gravel, tilted his head, and checked his mouth. Nothing. No breath.
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PART 2 “Take me to him,” I said. “Ma’am, that’s not how this works.” I took out my phone and called the county sheriff’s office right there in front of him. I gave them my name, the custody order, and the words “minor child alone in the desert for twenty-two days at 104 degrees.”
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PART 2 Jaden held the brochure in his lap and didn’t move. Then he asked me, very quietly, the question every adopted child is afraid to ask. “Are you going to give me back?”
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PART 2 I stared at that photocopy for a long time. Jolie. My little sister. Wearing her hair the way I wear mine. Holding a driver’s license with my name on it. The woman laughing in the background of Neil’s call. “Is that her?”
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