Across Generations
Military & Action · fiction

The Daughter in the Front Row

The morning we buried my father, my brother pointed at me in front of the funeral director and said, “She doesn’t need to be up front.” There are sentences that hurt because they are unexpected. That one didn’t. I had been hearing some version of it my entire life. The funeral home sat outside Dayton, Ohio, behind a low...

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Military & Action
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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