Peter crossed the distance in three strides. He didn’t yell. He didn’t ask where she had been for ten years. He just wrapped his arms around his surviving child and held her tight.

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They stood there for a long time, the three of them united over the grave of the one they had lost. Michael’s death had broken their hearts, but in a twist of fate, it had healed the fracture in their family.
Noah came home that day. The camera was taken down from the tree. They didn’t need to spy anymore. They had the truth, and more importantly, they had their daughter back.
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