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But I couldn’t. Thirty-one years of silence were breaking. “She had a birthmark just like yours. Right below her left ear.”
“I haven’t been. I swear. I just—” How could I explain? “You look like someone I lost.”
She pushed me toward her cruiser, rougher now. “Save it for booking.”
The ride to the station was agony. Twenty minutes of staring at the back of my daughter’s head, seeing Amy’s stubborn cowlick that no amount of gel could tame.
She kept checking the mirror, probably wondering if she had a stalker in her backseat.
At the station, she passed me off to another officer for processing.
But I saw her watching from across the room as they took my prints, my photo, ran my record.
Clean except for some minor stuff from the ’90s—bar fights during the angry years after Sarah disappeared.
The breathalyzer came back 0.00. The blood test would too. Officer Chen frowned at the results.
“Why were you acting so strange?”
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