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Jones’s words rang in Claire’s ears over and over again. “He decided to pretend that you didn’t exist. He gave up.”
He gave up on the life of his child. She wanted to ask a hundred more questions; how long did he look? Where did he look? Did he really pretend that she didn’t exist? When was the last time he thought of her? Did he still love her? Did he ever love her?
Claire hated how these thoughts wormed their way into her brain and tried desperately to block them out. All her life, her birth father had abandoned her birth mother. He had been a selfish specter, but not a haunting one. To say that he had occupied even the back of her mind offered him too much credit. But now, seeing a pair of eyes that looked so much like her own, she suddenly needed to know him.
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