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Prologue
September 1985
A 
t tm i ond hat mght’ happnd f i’d gon
th
Mamm
that damp, haz monng n a ago.sh a o td—h’d ad t hf—ppang fo makt da.such a bak xpon dud h t fac a h tudgd out toth atng ho and th ncod ga caag fd th goudand quah and oth gadn gtab.A hudd ppd though m a i atchd h tp nto th
bugg, cang th ctangua mon tn fo makng chang at
makt. wa i omho nng hat a jut ahad?sh t th tn box on th font at nxt to h and pckd
up th n a i tood on th back tp. Thn h ga a fant
a and ou  ockd momnta. in that bunng cond, ift th ug to un out to th bugg and top h, o at at off
 
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Beverly Lewis
to jon h, a though m pnc aon mght kp Podncfom hang t a.But bfo i coud do o, Mamm cckd h tongu fo Up-
Da to mo ahad, and th oung ma tottd off b a of 
sam road, h ou fam adjon th bhop’ on. Thn oon oad and don . . . don th pcaou Bd Path lan that
m th ock an, ou hotcut to th man oad adng to
Qua.en no, a a oung oman of tnt, i thnk back to thatmab hou and tmb, hng i’d hdd th aam cang-
ng n m ban. yt th i tood, atchng nt n th mt
and th fog.
Ho coud i ha knon Mamm oud b found omtmat, ng aong th oad and unab to ak, th fam bugg
tund upd don n th uggd an bo?
u
Aound that tm, ou nghbo, th bhop, bought hom afot chd fom Phadpha. i’ n fogt th da i mt NckFanco. H a jut tn and can a a tck . . . h a ha aback a a an. M moth had takn m t and m nxt dooto com hm, a baktfu of food tuckd und h am.
Th, n th fa con of th bg ktchn, Nck had at a
umpd o, a f omon had doppd a fd bag on h ghthoud. H a dd k an of th Amh choobo oundh—th thn back upnd and bagg pant out of pac thh hot engh hacut. whn h gancd up fom h pch on
a oodn too, i caught th ot ook n h dak, ad  and
azd h mut’ bn takn aa fom thng h’d knon.
 Nck n o much a uttd a od hn th bhop’ f
ntoducd hm a
“our new son.”
Nth dd h pak to a ngou th t of that k, th bhop at tod
Dat
.
rght aa, i ft o fo Nck Fanco—an outd com
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