Gran’s estate lawyer’s office was in Charlotte, about thirty minutes past the small town of Sherrill’s Ford where she’d grown up.

Although really, that was such a loaded question. Sometimes Bennett panicked a little when someone would ask her that question. Where did she grow up? Did she talk about the first five years of her life when she lived in Nevada with a mom and a dad that seemed to love her and each other? Or did she cut all that out and start in Florida, where her dad moved with her after everything fell apart between her parents and her dad turned her mom into immigration and she was deported to Colombia? That was a pretty sad story, though, and Bennett had a hard time nailing Florida details to the wall, traumatized as she was by the sudden and inexplicable loss of...

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