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My Wife Had Just Left for the Grocery Store When My 7-Year-Old Daughter Whispered, “Dad… We Need to Leave. Right Now.” I laughed at first. “Why?” She pointed toward the upstairs hallway, her hands shaking. “We don’t have time. We have to get out of this house now.” Ten minutes later I was driving to the police station with her in the back seat… and that’s when everything began to fall apart.
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“Because some people think an apology fixes everything,” he said.
“But some things can’t be fixed.”
Noah nodded slowly.
Then he smiled.
“Are we going to build a new house?”
Marcus smiled for the first time in months.
“Yes,” he said.
“And this time… we’ll make sure it’s truly safe.”