The first night, I checked the front door so many times that my sister finally sat beside it and waited without speaking.
She did not tell me the lock was safe.
She let me test it myself.
A few weeks later, I gave her a spare key.
She held it in her palm and asked, “Do you want me to keep this, or would you rather I leave it here?”
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No one had asked me that kind of question in a long time.
