The officer finished the sentence carefully: “This woman was reported missing years before you ever met her.” I thought they had confused her with someone else, but the photograph was unmistakable. Same face, same small scar near her eyebrow, same woman who had trusted me with her twins every night for two years. According to the police, she had disappeared from another state under a different name after leaving an abusive relationship. Her family believed something terrible had happened because she had never contacted them again.
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