If Ellis and Ava had not appeared at that moment, and Ray had stayed to examine the wall even further, he might have noticed that one face appeared twice. He might have realized that the boy in the bright green baseball jersey was also the boy in the black-and-white photograph clipped from his hometown paper. And, maybe, Ray might have realized that two people slept at the Poppy Fields after the loss of the same little boy. That these photos were the offerings of both a mother and a medic, of Jamie Roberts’s wife and Ray’s brother, Johnny. The last two people to hold the boy’s hands.
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