At Dominic Hawthorne’s crowded memorial charity concert, housemaid Cora approached the head table carrying water but stopped when she reached him.
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Chapter 16
Two years after Lily came home, Margaret died naturally.
Lily chose to attend the small service.
No one asked her to.
She brought no flowers.
She brought one folded paper.
A drawing.
The green-shutter house.
Two figures outside.
Margaret and Lily.
Then another figure farther down the road.
Me.
But this time the road connected.
I understood.
She had redrawn the ending.
May you like
Not erased.
Changed.
