“You need to come,” I said when he picked up. “I found something.”

He was there in 40 minutes.

I handed him the letter without a word and watched his face as he read it. He went through every expression I’d gone through: confusion, then dawning understanding, then the kind of stillness that comes when something too large to immediately process lands.

“I found something.”

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