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My sister,\u00a0Emma<\/span><\/strong>, and her husband,\u00a0<\/span>Brad<\/span><\/strong>, lived six blocks away. Six blocks these little boys had walked in the pitch-dark, alone and terrified.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cStay here,\u201d I said, my voice thick. \u201cI\u2019m making hot chocolate. The good kind, with marshmallows.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019d known something was deeply wrong for months. Emma was my older sister by three years. Growing up, we\u2019d been inseparable. She\u2019d protected me from bullies in middle school, helped me study for my SATs, and loaned me money when I was broke in college. Then she married Brad Thompson.<\/p>\n

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My sister,\u00a0Emma, and her husband,\u00a0Brad, lived six blocks away. Six blocks these little boys had walked in the pitch-dark, alone and terrified. \u201cStay here,\u201d I said, my voice thick. \u201cI\u2019m making hot chocolate. The good kind, with marshmallows.\u201d I\u2019d known something was deeply wrong for months. Emma was my older sister by three years. Growing…<\/p>\n

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