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PART 1 I knew him the second he came through that cabin door. Five years since the divorce. Some people leave a mark that does not come off with time, and I have stopped being… 

MY SON DIED SAVING HIS 5-YEAR-OLD SISTER WITH A TRANSPLANT. ON HER 18TH BIRTHDAY, A CARD ARRIVED: “HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LITTLE SISTER. I PROMISED I’D BE HERE.” THEN THE DOORBELL RANG — AND A STRANGER SAID… 

PART 1 — THE BOX Everybody thought they knew why I married Rowland Fisk, and they were not entirely wrong. I was thirty-two and I owed forty-one thousand dollars and I was eleven days from… 

I came back to my hometown for three days. That was the plan. Three days to sign some paperwork connected to my late parents’ house, check on a few repairs, eat at the diner I… 

PART 2 The lawyer paused. The room was completely silent. Patrice stared at him, her arms now resting loosely at her sides. The other relatives leaned forward. I couldn’t move. Mr. Abernathy looked down at… 

PART 1 — TWO CARS Jory is twelve and he has never done one thing in his life because somebody told him to, which cuts both ways. Four days into the summer he saw Birdie…