Are you sure

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It was me.
“You were a doll baby” Uda said. She was looking down over my shoulder.
“That’s me? Are you sure?”
She took the stack and shuffled through it like a card trick. She produced another photo. “There’s
Hallie. You didn’t look a thing alike when you were born.” To her the eyes were commonplacenot a
feature to connect usbut they were the only feature I could see. To mewe looked identical.
I held the two photographs up to the lightmystified. The eyes were unearthly. We were two babies
not of this world. Just like every other one in the stack of photos; two more babies of Grace. He was doing
exactly the opposite of setting himself apart. He was proving we belonged herewere as pure as anybody
in Grace. Both sides.
Our mother’s name was Althea. Her family despised him.
“We’re puro” I said out loud. And then I dropped the photographs because I heard the broken-glass
pop of the flash and went blind. I heard myself make an odd little whimper.
Then Uda appeared in my field of visionmoving away. “CodihonI’m going on downstairs and beat
the rugs or something. I’ll try not to scare up too much dust.”
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