The Judge Asked a 9 Year Old Who He Wanted to Live With Until He Pulled Something From His Pocket

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Sarah did not tell him to put it away.

She figured he would know when he no longer needed to see it.

And one morning, without announcement, she noticed it was gone. Not discarded. She found it later in his memory box, wrapped in a piece of paper where he had written in his careful nine-year-old handwriting: the thing I used when I told the continue reading …