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I still hear the crack of my skull hitting the floor when my son-in-law snarled, “Stay down.” My daughter grabbed my hair, dragging me outside as neighbors stared in silence. “Get out. It’s three million. You’re nothing,” she hissed. I thought that was the end. I didn’t know someone was dialing 911. And when the sirens came, everything they built began to collapse. – True Stories

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part 2

The sirens arrived like judgment.
Red and blue light washed over the mansion, over Emily’s perfect hedges, over Derek’s imported car, over me lying on the wet concrete with blood drying near my temple.

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