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“It’s okay I’ve got you,” she heard Tom say

When he lowered thean to cry Abby wasn’t sure what had just happened She only knew that she’d felt things, seen things, heard things, that were shocking and trau and …

She was going out of herdidn’t really happen Oh, God …

Her body started to shake

This was how Edith died

Abby ree on Elijah’s face as he shook his wife She’d think about the hohat had just happened later Right now she was si to hold on to a warm, full-of-life Tom Arseneault

“What is it?” he asked gently “You’ve got to stop crying Please, Abs Please don’t cry any me”

She took a shuddering breath and sniffled “I’m sorry…”

“Don’t apologize Just telland—” His voice broke off on a crack of emotion

“I felt so strange,” she whispered, her breath hitching, “and there was this buzzing in ht me If you hadn’t I’d…” Her breath hitched and she shuddered She would have fallen head over heels down those stairs

“Have you eaten today?”

“I don’t remember”

Her head rested in the curve of his neck and his T-shirt et fro to the skin of his chest She pushed away, just a little so she could look into his face The next words were so hard to say, but she had to tell soht she died, To to send Iris away and they fought It was terrible She kept pleading with him and he pushed her and she fell”

“Come on, Abby There’s no way to know that for sure Not now It was decades ago” He rubbed her arms with his hands

Abby sed “I saw it, Tom I saw it all happen”