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CHAPTER 1: The Chicken and the Slap

Just before Evan could take a roasted chicken thigh, Diane snatched the plate from his reach.

The doctor gave me only 3 days to live, and my wife smiled beside my bed...

"The doctor gave me only 3 days to live, and my wife smiled beside my bed: 'Finally, everything will be ours.' My stepdaughter too...

"You have three babies.

"You have three babies.Your brother has none.It's only fair that you give him one."Maya thought the anesthesia was still playing t...

Clara locked both hands around the cemetery rail.

Clara locked both hands around the cemetery rail."Open that casket before you bury my son!"Veronica moved quickly between her and...

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Madison emptied an entire orange bucket onto Noah's birthday cake.

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The sound was not especially loud.

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When I stepped onto the patio, Hattie had already looped a dog chain around my mother's ne...

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I woke up at 3:12 in the morning and found my pregnant wife missing from our bed…

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I emerged from the laundry room carrying Lily as she cried into my shoulder.

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"I returned home two days early and found 20 of my mother's guests eating in my house whil...

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CHAPTER 1: The Boys With My Face

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CHAPTER 1: The Children Who Were Made to Serve