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The Father They Asked For
The first girl slipped beneath my café table so quietly I almost missed her. I was halfway through my second cup of coffee, twenty-eight minutes away from a headquarters briefing, and enjoying the rare luxury of being invisible. That did not happen often. Twenty-seven years in the United States Army had taught me that rank followed you even...
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