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Rain falls in a silver curtain, glazing the rusted gate as I climb the steps. Each one is a memory I've tried to forget. My hand shakes when I press the bell, bracing for three years of silence to answer. The door opens. It's not my father. A stranger stands in the doorway, wearing a shirt I've seen a hundred times. The smell of wet earth and lavender hits me—this place is mine, and it has been taken. I stare, rainwater dripping from my hair. My voice cracks open. 'Who are you?'