I blinked, sitting up. "What's going on? I just woke up."
She flinched, pushing open the curtains to let in the bright morning light, and sat on the bed. "How's baby this
morning?" She asked and | smiled down at my belly. "Growing like a gremlin.” She nodded and took my hand, a
tear falling down her cheek.
| prepared myself for the worst...
"There's news. Honey - they found a part of the aircraft. Some
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cargo ship en route to Australia found it."
"What do you mean?" My stomach dropped as the words settled in, each one like a cold weight.
"They searched that area, and well - they are flying the bodies to the States, and they need us to - we need to
identify them." She swallowed, holding herself together but barely.
A whirl of emotions swirled through me, but | could barely feel them. It was like my body was working overtime,
just trying to process this information and make sense of what | was supposed to do next.
"Are they sure?" My voice was a tremor of disbelief.
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Laura shook her head. "I don't know. They haven't toldmuch. Just that we need to talk to someone in person,
and they're asking for us to cas soon as possible:"
| sat up, blinking a few times to escape the fog. "Australia? They weren't anywhere close to Australia..." |
mumbled more to myself than anything else.
A small part of- the selfish part didn't want to go. | wanted to call my other and ask her if she could go or let
Luke's parents identify... identify...
But that's not how the world works, is it? | don't get to outrun this because it's catching up withanyway.
I sighed - fully aware that | must return to my life anyway. Paris
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has been wonderful. The lights, the city, the people - but these people, especially Marcelo, have learned to live
with their grief. Even Laura has more light by the day in her, but I still feel like this gaping black hole sucks the
light from everything around
1. me.
| swallowed down the knot in my
throat and wiped Is erserumy
hereto 85s we have no
other options, right? This is closer -
we need closure." | mutter and pull
Laura into a hug. The little light ger
that started 0 shindlvfad row tying
again, JARS we find our boys back
home... | don't know if her light will
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Even if we didn't admit it out loud to
each other, | knew she was clinging
to the granule of hopehatdriey'dduid
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on a life raft somewhere or stuck on
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