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“It didn’t seem fair to them.
But Martha died in January, and Thomas passed two years before that.”
“So you were all by yourself up in Tyler,” I said.
“I was,” she said.
“Until Tuesday morning, when I opened the paper and saw an obituary for Evelyn Bradley naming a surviving granddaughter called Sarah.”
“I had to spell it for the clerk twice,” I said.
“With an H on the end.”
Sarah looked down at her hands lying quietly in her lap.
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