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I knew that reaction.
A child does not fear a stranger that way.
“She stays with me until EMS touches her,” I said.
Only then did Mr. Vale look at me.
His eyes moved from my torn gloves to my dirt-streaked beard, then down to the shopping cart visible near the ditch. His mouth made the smallest shape of disgust, controlled and practiced.
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