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Morning light spilled through the windows behind her, but the woman in front of me looked nothing like the confident fiancée I had proposed to six months earlier.
She looked terrified.
Her hands trembled around the coffee mug she wasn’t drinking from.
I waited.
For several seconds, neither of us spoke.
Then she whispered:
“Because Sarah’s biological mother is my sister.”
The world stopped.
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