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Three Sentence Stories #14

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Her father’s diary held a shocking revelation: a few years before his untimely death, he’d discovered an identical twin brother—a golden child who had seemingly made nothing but good life decisions. Engrossed in the thin, angled script of her father’s hand, she found his narrative growing bitter, jealous, even callous at times, as he recounted the life this “Jerry” had built for himself, “and what if,” her father pondered, “we just switched places?” While she read closely for any clues to help her track down the unknown uncle herself, she reached a final line that left her breathless: “If you’re reading this, Katie Bear, I must be gone; if it gives you some hope, know that I may still be alive and well somewhere, though in that case you’ve buried the wrong man.”

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