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This happens every once in a while. I think I see my father and forget that’s not possible, that he’s been gone for years. The moments pass as quickly as they come, but the ache in my chest isn’t as easy to shake off.

“You look like you’ve seen a ghost,” Brayden says.

I exhale heavily. “I saw you out of the corner of my eye, and you looked like Dad.”

He doesn’t mock me; instead