The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound ampli — Margaret Peterson Haddix, Double Identity
The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound ampli — Margaret Peterson Haddix, Double Identity
The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound ampli — Margaret Peterson Haddix, Double Identity
The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound ampli — Margaret Peterson Haddix, Double Identity
The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound ampli — Margaret Peterson Haddix, Double Identity
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The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying.

— Margaret Peterson Haddix, Double Identity
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