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Garret was searching for the will that her parents had filed along with the estate paperwork. He was using her name as a search, but he was coming up empty on everything. He looked up, “Sara, is that your real name?”
“Yes.” She replied, “Why?”
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The ride to the courthouse was quiet. The two didn’t speak as they let the silence fill the cabin of the car. They had done this a few times before when they were teenagers. Garret was thinking about everything he had learned already about her, about the case, and surprisingly about himself. It wasn’t a surprise to him that she had completely tak
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While the two women stood there looking at each other, the one behind the counter began to glare at Sara, the longer Garett was taking. The woman finally spoke to her, and the tone was completely different than the one she had used a few minutes prior to Garett. “So, are you a client?”
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“how?” he asked softly as they got in the car. He wasn’t looking to figure everything out right now, but he was just trying to understand if it was her or it was something else that he didn’t know about.“No one ever tried. No one ever asked.” She said as she looked at him.
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“Gar, how did you remember?” she asked as she got out of the car. Her eyes were bright and shining happily.“this was your favorite thing when we were kids.” He said with a shoulder shrug. “We had to sneak off the farm to get here because I was the one with the car.”
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The two sat in silence at the picnic table that was off to the side of the building that held one of her favorite places in the world. She had just revealed to him the reason why and he was happy with just knowing that. He would be glad to take her so she could remember the good times that she had with her family but also the times they shared when they would leave the farm just to getaway. Though they always went back to hear about the time they spent together from her aunt and his step-mother.
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The car ride back was quiet. Garrett was lost in thought, and so was Sara. She wanted nothing more than to see her aunt lose everything, but she knew she couldn’t really wish for that. She knew fate was hard, and so was karma. Though Garrett seemed to want the same things, she knew that was not something she wanted to put out into the universe. Though she wasn’t spiritual, she wasn’t willing to mess with things she knew were there.Her aunt, if she had done this or a
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Garret lived off in the country, which surprised Sara to a point. He never seemed to like the farm, but here he was in an old farmhouse with some nice land around him. Sara looked it over as she got out of the car. Two large dogs were in the back, barking loudly as they saw people in the front. “Sorry, I forgot about them.” Garrett laughed.“Why are you, sorry? You know I love dogs.” Sara said as she smiled at him. “This isn’t what I expected.&rdquo
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They stood there looking at each other with the contract they wrote up years before in the middle of them. He didn’t know why he hadn’t thought of the fact it was hanging up in his house where it was when he asked her to come over. He had forgotten about it being there. Though he was okay with her seeing it and knowing he thought of it often as he pondered different things for different cases he worked on, it was a surprise for him to have framed it and to keep it there among his other personal documents like his degrees and whatnot.
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