Sarah stared at the photograph from Nevada.<\/p>\n
Two dead.<\/p>\n
Three injured.<\/p>\n
One missing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he do?\u201d<\/p>\n
Morales did not soften it.<\/p>\n
\u201cInvestigators believe an incendiary device was placed inside a laboratory storage room.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWas anyone supposed to be there?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMark may have believed it was empty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat isn\u2019t what I asked.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah looked at Ethan\u2019s room.<\/p>\n
Her face changed.<\/p>\n
She understood what Mark had become because she recognized the road.<\/p>\n
Fear.<\/p>\n
Justification.<\/p>\n
One compromise.<\/p>\n
Then another.<\/p>\n
Eventually you stopped asking whether the next person deserved to pay for the last thing that happened to you.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is he going?\u201d<\/p>\n
Morales had analysts tracking the buyer list.<\/p>\n
The pharmaceutical consortium operated a research facility two hours away.<\/p>\n
The foreign institute was beyond Mark\u2019s immediate reach.<\/p>\n
The military contractor maintained a local administrative office but no biological material there.<\/p>\n
The second domestic site was most likely.<\/p>\n
Daniel checked the stolen Phoenix files.<\/p>\n
\u201cMark has enough material to authenticate as Creston personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMeaning he can enter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan he trigger shutdowns?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot anymore. Those systems are suspended.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat can he do?\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cDestroy samples.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd records.\u201d<\/p>\n
Morales added, \u201cAnd people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah flinched.<\/p>\n
I expected her to defend him.<\/p>\n
She did not.<\/p>\n
\u201cFind him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re trying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. Use me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Morales stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019ll call.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause he wants me to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was true.<\/p>\n
Mark\u2019s actions had always required an audience of one.<\/p>\n
Sarah.<\/p>\n
He needed her to believe he had saved Ethan.<\/p>\n
Needed her to accept what happened to Lily.<\/p>\n
Needed her forgiveness.<\/p>\n
Now he would need her to see his destruction as redemption.<\/p>\n
Sarah\u2019s phone rang seventeen minutes later.<\/p>\n
Mark.<\/p>\n
Morales connected recording equipment.<\/p>\n
Sarah answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere are you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou saw Nevada.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey can\u2019t use that site anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo people are dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey worked for Creston.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t know what they knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey knew enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t get to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTurn people into categories so hurting them becomes easy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark breathed heavily.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey used our children.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSomebody did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t know that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know what they were building.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen give the evidence to police.\u201d<\/p>\n
He laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice? The same system Vale owned?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe doesn\u2019t own it now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou believe that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe burning people alive isn\u2019t justice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The silence that followed was dangerous.<\/p>\n
Mark finally said, \u201cYou\u2019ve changed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cClaire did that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her voice became steady.<\/p>\n
\u201cLily did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark said nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter looked at me and asked whether I knew they might hurt her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah swallowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did know, Mark.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were trying to save Ethan.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat doesn\u2019t erase it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had no choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had choices we hated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eve\u2019s sentence.<\/p>\n
Sarah had remembered.<\/p>\n
Mark\u2019s breathing changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is Ethan?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSafe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLily?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSafe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan I talk to them?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m their father.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The answer hurt him more than denial.<\/p>\n
Sarah continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd right now their father is a man who killed people and is carrying stolen biological material.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m ending this.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. You\u2019re continuing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark went quiet.<\/p>\n
Morales signaled technicians.<\/p>\n
They had a rough location.<\/p>\n
Industrial district east of the city.<\/p>\n
Mark was moving.<\/p>\n
Sarah kept him talking.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s in the coolers?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything Phoenix had.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEmma\u2019s material?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I felt Daniel stiffen.<\/p>\n
Sarah looked at me but continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you going to do with it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDestroy it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t need to know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why call?\u201d<\/p>\n
He had no answer.<\/p>\n
Because she was right.<\/p>\n
He wanted her approval.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want me to tell you you\u2019re fixing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am fixing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSarah\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou made Ethan sick.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVale did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou helped him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew enough to hide things from me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark began crying.<\/p>\n
Sarah did not rescue him from the feeling.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou let them take Lily.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know what you thought.\u201d<\/p>\n
She pressed her hand against her chest.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought terrible things too.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was the difference now.<\/p>\n
She was not claiming moral purity.<\/p>\n
She was claiming responsibility.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can stop.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark whispered, \u201cIt\u2019s too late.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople died.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll go to prison.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably.\u201d<\/p>\n
He laughed through tears.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI want you to stop making other people pay because you\u2019re afraid of what happens when you do.\u201d<\/p>\n
The technicians located him.<\/p>\n
An abandoned distribution center.<\/p>\n
Morales sent teams.<\/p>\n
Mark seemed to hear something.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou traced me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes,\u201d Sarah said.<\/p>\n
He sounded almost relieved.<\/p>\n
Then he whispered, \u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
The call ended.<\/p>\n
Morales looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was strange.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel agreed.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted the trace.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTrap?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
The distribution center belonged to a shell company connected to the pharmaceutical buyer.<\/p>\n
Mark had not been traveling toward the next site.<\/p>\n
He was already inside it.<\/p>\n
The buyer\u2019s people were there too.<\/p>\n
Security cameras showed armed personnel.<\/p>\n
Mark had walked into a private confrontation and invited federal police to follow.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s forcing a raid,\u201d Morales said.<\/p>\n
Eve studied the building plans.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wants investigators to see whatever is inside.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why the explosives?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause he doesn\u2019t trust them to preserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Morales\u2019s radio crackled.<\/p>\n
Shots fired.<\/p>\n
Sarah stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Agents ordered occupants to surrender.<\/p>\n
More gunfire.<\/p>\n
Then Mark called again.<\/p>\n
Sarah answered.<\/p>\n
His voice was weak.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFound what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe families.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat families?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTrial subjects.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pharmaceutical buyer had begun human testing.<\/p>\n
Not children in underground cells.<\/p>\n
Volunteers.<\/p>\n
Adults and children with terminal or severe diseases.<\/p>\n
People who had been offered experimental treatment.<\/p>\n
Some knew it was experimental.<\/p>\n
None knew the material had been stolen from Creston subjects.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTwelve.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre they inside?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen don\u2019t burn it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark coughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have records.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLet police take them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll bury it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMark.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI can destroy the cultures.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot with people inside.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cMark, listen to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah\u2019s voice broke.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you ever loved Ethan and Lily, do one thing they could someday understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
He breathed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWalk out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey shot me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow bad?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen put down whatever you\u2019re carrying and walk toward police.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have the cultures.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLeave them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they get them\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLeave them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSarah.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo more choosing things over people.\u201d<\/p>\n
That sentence reached him.<\/p>\n
We heard something metallic hit the floor.<\/p>\n
A cooler.<\/p>\n
Then another.<\/p>\n
Mark whispered, \u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Morales relayed instructions.<\/p>\n
Mark emerged through a side door.<\/p>\n
Unarmed.<\/p>\n
Blood covering his shirt.<\/p>\n
Federal medics reached him.<\/p>\n
The building was secured twenty minutes later.<\/p>\n
No explosion.<\/p>\n
No additional deaths.<\/p>\n
The twelve trial subjects were found alive.<\/p>\n
Mark survived surgery.<\/p>\n
He would face homicide charges connected to Nevada, conspiracy charges, medical crimes, evidence tampering, and whatever else investigators uncovered.<\/p>\n
Sarah did not visit him.<\/p>\n
Not yet.<\/p>\n
She did authorize doctors to tell him Ethan and Lily were alive.<\/p>\n
Nothing more.<\/p>\n
The pharmaceutical facility produced enough evidence to identify every participant and physician involved.<\/p>\n
Some doctors had knowingly purchased illegal biological material.<\/p>\n
Others believed they were participating in a legitimate compassionate-use trial.<\/p>\n
That difference would be investigated rather than assumed.<\/p>\n
Eve seemed almost startled by the restraint.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cCreston never investigated uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did it do?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDecided.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was becoming the central distinction.<\/p>\n
The next days blurred.<\/p>\n
Federal warrants.<\/p>\n
Medical evaluations.<\/p>\n
Interviews.<\/p>\n
Child-protection teams.<\/p>\n
Independent laboratories.<\/p>\n
News organizations began reporting that a long-running biomedical network was under investigation.<\/p>\n
Authorities withheld children\u2019s identities.<\/p>\n
Vale\u2019s name became public.<\/p>\n
Adrian\u2019s too.<\/p>\n
Creston\u2019s reputation collapsed within forty-eight hours.<\/p>\n
But the work did not disappear.<\/p>\n
That would take years.<\/p>\n
Perhaps decades.<\/p>\n
Emma remained stable.<\/p>\n
Lily remained stable.<\/p>\n
Ethan improved steadily as Creston\u2019s drugs cleared his system.<\/p>\n
Maya received a full independent medical evaluation.<\/p>\n
So did Sophie and the other rescued children.<\/p>\n
No procedures unless medically necessary.<\/p>\n
No research enrollment.<\/p>\n
No automatic sampling.<\/p>\n
For the first time, their charts began with names rather than codes.<\/p>\n
Maya chose a birthday.<\/p>\n
The social worker told her official records might eventually establish one.<\/p>\n
Maya said she wanted two birthdays.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne for when I was born and one for when I got outside.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nobody argued.<\/p>\n
Eve stayed.<\/p>\n
Not with us.<\/p>\n
Not yet.<\/p>\n
She rented a hotel room and visited carefully.<\/p>\n
Sometimes she and Sarah talked about our mother.<\/p>\n
Sometimes she left early because it was too much.<\/p>\n
Sometimes I did.<\/p>\n
There was no miraculous sisterhood.<\/p>\n
There was curiosity.<\/p>\n
Grief.<\/p>\n
Awkwardness.<\/p>\n
Possibility.<\/p>\n
Daniel moved out of our house.<\/p>\n
That was my decision.<\/p>\n
He accepted it.<\/p>\n
Emma saw him under an arrangement we made with therapists and investigators.<\/p>\n
He had not been charged, though the investigation into his role continued.<\/p>\n
One evening he asked whether I thought we had any future.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
He nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan I wait?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s your choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not a promise.<\/p>\n
Not forgiveness.<\/p>\n
Just truth.<\/p>\n
A week after the raids, Dr. Patel called Sarah and me into a conference room.<\/p>\n
Emma and Lily\u2019s genetic results had been independently verified.<\/p>\n
The inherited adaptive trait existed.<\/p>\n
Real.<\/p>\n
Rare.<\/p>\n
Potentially medically significant.<\/p>\n
But the most important finding was simpler.<\/p>\n
Neither child currently required treatment.<\/p>\n
No stabilizer.<\/p>\n
No suppression.<\/p>\n
Monitoring.<\/p>\n
Ordinary pediatric care.<\/p>\n
Time.<\/p>\n
Emma chose not to make any decision about permanent suppression.<\/p>\n
Lily was too young to consider it.<\/p>\n
Their samples would not be retained for research without future consent.<\/p>\n
Sarah signed the paperwork.<\/p>\n
Then handed the pen to Emma.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause some of this is about you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emma read the assent form.<\/p>\n
Slowly.<\/p>\n
She asked questions.<\/p>\n
Then signed.<\/p>\n
Lily printed her first name beneath Sarah\u2019s signature because she wanted to.<\/p>\n
Her L was backward.<\/p>\n
Nobody corrected it.<\/p>\n
Outside the conference room, Morales waited.<\/p>\n
She had news.<\/p>\n
Robert Vale had requested a formal interview.<\/p>\n
Not with me.<\/p>\n
With prosecutors.<\/p>\n
He was negotiating.<\/p>\n
Adrian had already begun cooperating selectively.<\/p>\n
Each wanted to blame the other.<\/p>\n
Thomas found that funny.<\/p>\n
\u201cForty years together and now they discover ethics through plea bargaining.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eve did not laugh.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are they offering?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNames. Sites. Financial networks.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBuyers?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cContinuation programs?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cChildren?\u201d<\/p>\n
Morales nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cPotentially.\u201d<\/p>\n
That mattered.<\/p>\n
Then she handed me a sealed evidence copy.<\/p>\n
My mother\u2019s final notebook.<\/p>\n
The original remained with prosecutors.<\/p>\n
This was a scanned reproduction I was legally allowed to read.<\/p>\n
The last page contained no science.<\/p>\n
Only handwriting.<\/p>\n
Margaret had written it shortly before her death.<\/p>\n
Claire wants to know why everything must have a reason.<\/p>\n
Sarah wants to know why reasons matter if people are still hurt.<\/p>\n
I smiled despite myself.<\/p>\n
That sounded like us.<\/p>\n
The entry continued.<\/p>\n
If they ever learn what happened here, I hope they do not spend their lives becoming an answer to Creston.<\/p>\n
I stopped.<\/p>\n
Read it again.<\/p>\n
Not spend their lives becoming an answer.<\/p>\n
For weeks, everything had been about ending Vale\u2019s work.<\/p>\n
Destroying it.<\/p>\n
Exposing it.<\/p>\n
Correcting it.<\/p>\n
My mother had understood another danger.<\/p>\n
Creston could own our lives even after we escaped if every future decision remained a reaction to it.<\/p>\n
Sarah read over my shoulder.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe wanted us to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEventually.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan we?\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked through the glass.<\/p>\n
Emma, Lily, Maya, Sophie, and Ethan sat around a table.<\/p>\n
Emma was teaching Uno badly.<\/p>\n
Maya accused her of inventing rules.<\/p>\n
She was correct.<\/p>\n
Ethan looked tired but laughed.<\/p>\n
Sarah watched them.<\/p>\n
Then she said, \u201cNot yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut eventually.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
My phone rang.<\/p>\n
Morales.<\/p>\n
She had stepped away only moments earlier.<\/p>\n
I answered.<\/p>\n
Her voice had changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of Vale\u2019s sites just responded to the federal disclosure request.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnother site?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot Creston.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA hospital research program in Oregon.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey say they received biological material eighteen years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom whom?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRobert Vale.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy are they only responding now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause they didn\u2019t know it was illegally obtained.\u201d<\/p>\n
I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat material?\u201d<\/p>\n
There was a pause.<\/p>\n
\u201cYours.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked through the window at Emma.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did they do with it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Morales hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey used it in an experimental treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor who?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA newborn with catastrophic organ failure.\u201d<\/p>\n
I felt the old dread return.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid the baby survive?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow old now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEighteen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is this person?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat problem?\u201d<\/p>\n
Morales lowered her voice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe patient disappeared from follow-up twelve years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
I leaned against the wall.<\/p>\n
Another life.<\/p>\n
Another person carrying something taken from me.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo we know a name?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I waited.<\/p>\n
Morales said it.<\/p>\n
The surname made Sarah turn before I repeated it.<\/p>\n
Because we both knew it.<\/p>\n
Bennett.<\/p>\n
Not Daniel\u2019s adopted family by coincidence.<\/p>\n
The patient had been registered under Thomas Bennett\u2019s guardianship.<\/p>\n
I looked toward Thomas across the hallway.<\/p>\n
He saw my face.<\/p>\n
And immediately knew.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d he whispered.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew about the Oregon baby.\u201d<\/p>\n
His shoulders sank.<\/p>\n
Sarah stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas?\u201d<\/p>\n
He sat down.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho was it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas looked at me.<\/p>\n
For the first time since meeting him, he seemed unable to decide whether truth was something he could survive.<\/p>\n
I held my mother\u2019s notebook against my chest.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo more secrets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas nodded.<\/p>\n
Then he said the one name Daniel had never mentioned when telling me about his childhood.<\/p>\n
\u201cDaniel had a sister.\u201d<\/p>\n
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