“Your family didn’t come, did they?” “They were at Josh’s regional playoff game in Asheville. He was a senior, and if they’d lost, it would have been his last game on the team. That was the reason they gave me. I’d have lots of performances, but they couldn’t miss what might be Josh’s last game. Which I maybe understood, I guess. But…” I shake my head, hating that years later, I can still conjure up the loneliness that trailed me that weekend. “All I know is that I rode the activity bus back to Harvest Hollow alone,” I say. “Thirty kids from two high schools, and I was the only one with no one
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