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LOOK UNDER THE PAPER CROWN.

Beneath it sat a small cassette tape.

Mom gasped.

“I completely forgot about this.”

We rushed to find an old cassette player.

The moment the tape began, static filled the room.

Then came a voice none of us had heard in ten years.

Nora.

Small.

Fragile.

Alive.

“Hi, Gia. Hi, Leila. Hi, Mom.”

Leila immediately grabbed my hand.continue reading …