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The Green Tote

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Part I Michael adjusted the rearview mirror for the third time in two minutes, watching his 8-year-old son, Aidan, fiddling with a worn strap on his tattered blue tote bag. The bag, stitched by his ex-wife Hannah years ago, was barely holding together. The seams were loose, and the once-vivid fabric was now faded and fraying at the edges. Aidan had loved the bag since he was a toddler, but it was no longer doing ...
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