“Sparky and Jeanette couldn’t have children, so they adopted Corrine when she was four. Apparently Corrine’s mother either drank a lot or did drugs during her pregnancy, so Corrine was never right. She was a problem as a child, more of a problem as an adult. Very pretty. I have photos of her. But a week after I was born, she gave me to Sparky, and she split. He never saw her again. He reported her missing, but the authorities couldn’t find a trace of her. Neither could any of the three private detectives that Grandpa hired to chase her down during the first two years after she left. It was
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