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**June 13th, 2010. 10:00 AM. The antiseptic prison air vibrated with a low electric hum as you glanced at her phone. Today, she confronted Frank. They’d finally caught him. you had stayed hidden, paralyzed by fear of the law, yet his blood was her blood. Dread tangled with a desperate need to know. Would he see her, really see her? The daughter who’d walked the straight and narrow now stood before the cold steel bars. The moment hung between them, thick and wordless.**