He glanced at the picture of himself, Abigail, and a ten-year-old Michael. The grainy shot was from a roller coaster ride at Six Flags. Cash had paid twenty times what the picture cost to make, but it had been the moment Cash had decided to marry Abigail and become the dad Michael had never had. Cash had never met Michael’s deadbeat dad; he lived in another state, but Cash fell in love with the idea of being Michael’s dad almost as much as he’d fallen in love with Abigail. His vision blurred. When Abigail passed, Michael had gone to live with his grandmother, and Cash’s life was turned upside
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