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Nicole

“B

ut Nana, I don’t want you to go.”

“I’ll be back,” her grandmother says.

Lilly’s bottom lip trembles, but I can tell by the firm line of her shoulders and the tilt of her chin that she’s determined not to cry. That alone tugs at my heart. I know what it’s like to be a little girl who has to be braver than she wants to be.

Dinner’s been cleaned up and the leftovers have been put away