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By amossvcr, 07:41@@@@@I
could have sued and broken that place - beggared
the women who ran it - but I didn'tBecause even
in my grief, I understood that what happened to
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Esmeralda could have happened to anyone's childIt's all just la loter?a, entiendes? Once our firm
sued a Venetian blind company - I wasn't
personally involved - when a baby lying in his
crib got hold of the draw-cord, swallowed it, and
choked to deathThe parents won and there was a
payout, but their baby was just as dead, and if it
hadn't been the cord, it might have been something
elseThe ID tag off the dog's
collar"With Ez it
was the marbleShe pulled it down her throat
during playtime and choked to death
"Wireman, Jesus! I'm so sorry!"
"She was still alive when they got her to the
hospitalThe woman from the daycare called both
Julia's office and mineShe was babbling-crazy,
insaneJulia went tearing out of Work Fair, got
into her car, drove like hellThree blocks from
the hospital she had a head-on collision with an
Omaha Public Works truckShe was killed instantlyBy then our daughter had probably already been
dead for twenty minutesThat Mary medallion you
held for me
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He fell silent, and the silence spun outI didn't
fill it


