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Chapter 1

I gave my son an emergency credit card years ago. Then my daughter-in-law told me she had used it to pay for a Christmas party, and I stopped pretending I had heard her wrong.

“My card?” I asked.

Priscilla stood across my kitchen island in a bright red dress, one hand pressed against her waist. A second earlier, she had been smiling.

Then the smile disappeared.

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“It’s only for twenty-five people,” she said. “The caterer needed a deposit, so we used the card you gave Dean.”

The card I gave Dean.

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