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Six months later, Leah received an envelope with no sender. For a moment, the old fear returned so quickly she had to sit. Trauma has a rude memory. It does not care that the shelves are full, the records are clean, the suppliers are paid, and the court has spoken. It hears paper under a door and becomes the first morning again. But this envelope had come by post, stamped and soft at the edges. Inside was a.