married off his daughter

as they traced the contours of his face. She found the bridge of his nose, the hollows of his cheeks, the wetness of his eyes. He wasn’t the monster her sister had described. He was a man shattered by his own humanity, trying to glue the pieces back together with hers.

“You should have told me,” she said.

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