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I crouched slowly so I was eye level with her. “Hey,” I said, keeping my voice steady. “You okay?”
She shook her head immediately. “He hurt Mommy,” she said. “There was blood everywhere. She wouldn’t wake up.”
The world went quiet.
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But hearing that from a child?
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