FICTION: robbed
the man with the patchwork heart:
a little known fact is that 126 mable street was robbed several summers before their mother left them for good. sarah, the youngest of the family, opened the door after dinner, and, for that matter, far past her bedtime, to what she mistakenly thought was knocking, but instead was the creak of lock pick tools. she found george carpenter, the man her mother bought the steaks from every saturday at the market, wearing a ski mask in quite an unbecoming way.
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