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I realized I wanted to hug him too.

He might be a boy, but he wasn’t so bad.

And I finally understood who his mother was.

Kara Reaper.

Aunt Kitty.

The one I never got to meet, but everyone always talked about with quiet sadness.

They said she helped save the world. They never said much more.

But right then, I knew one thing for sure.

She was okay.

And when Grandpa smiled at Damien and said, “Tell your mother we’ll be waiting,” I saw it.

Peace.

The kind that lives in your bones.

And I couldn’t stop smiling.

The End

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