Chapter 27: Knock Knock
The One Who Leaves—When safety isn’t given, you learn how to find it however you can
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Whenever the doorbell rang, I always hoped it would be Mom. I’d yank the handle so fast and so full of hope it’d be coming out of my ears. It was never her, but that didn’t stop me from hurling myself toward the door anytime I heard a sound resembling a knock.
Until one day, when I h…