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In the quiet corner of the Britteny Care nursing home, Nana Shawls sat like a ghost of herself; small, brittle, and sunken into the soft cushions of a high-backed chair that now cradled her like a coffin.
The television was on and the clipped voice of a news presenter relayed the recent capture and arrest of a notorious criminal alongside other fugitives of the law, following Matt Shawl's public confessions.
'Matt.' Nana Shawl's son's name echoed like the sound of a fading, ringing bell in her heart.
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