Chapter One
From the opening pages
You notice it in small ways at first. The kettle boils and there is only one mug beside it. The washing machine, which used to run most days, sits quiet for a week. You walk past a bedroom door that used to be closed for a reason, and now it is closed simply because there is nothing behind it that needs the door open.
The house has not changed. The house is the same house. What has changed is the number of people moving through it, and the sound that number used to make.
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