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My mother looked at me then.
Something inside me shifted again.
I realized I wasn’t unloved. I was loved carefully, from a distance.
We didn’t say anything else.
***
Jack walked in first. “Let’s get this over with.”
I realized I wasn’t unloved.
“You can’t just force a sale,” Jack said.
“Yeah,” Eliza added. “This house is all we have left.”