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• I thought about what it must have been like for Ace to stay here by himself. It made my heart ache, and only more so to know things were worse when the man was home.
• The two of them had such strong personalities and were always getting into fights, made worse by his father’s unpredictable temper and alcohol-induced outbursts. It was better to keep them apart.
• That was why they slept on opposite ends of the house. Ace even had a lock on his door—the kind with a keypad that required a numeric code to unlock.