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Anna values the things people leave behind. In her late mother’s wardrobe, she finds the green coat her sister was supposedly wearing when she disappeared eighteen years ago. The discovery forces Anna to revisit the statement she signed at seventeen—and the family story she has helped keep intact ever since.
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Long story · 10 chapters · 8,143 words
Available languages: Nederlands, English
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FABLIVA
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My brother had put a price on the dining table before our mother was in the ground.
I didn’t hold that against him. I had put prices on worse things: a boy’s railway set, still laid out for a birthday he hadn’t reached; a wedding service with one place setting missing; a dialysis chair nobody wanted to touch. When people asked what my job was, I said I valued the contents of houses. Usually they heard houses.
Ben met me on the drive carrying two mugs.
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