My Son Brought His New Boyfriend Home — The Moment I Saw Him, I Called The Police

My name is Diane. I’m forty-nine years old and I live in a three-bedroom ranch in Millersburg, Ohio, on a street where everybody’s mailbox has a little flag on it whether they need one or not.

My son Tyler is nineteen. He was home for the summer after his first year at Ohio State, and for about two weeks he’d been working up to something.

You know how they do it. He’d start a sentence, decide against it, and then ask if we had any more of the good pretzels.

Finally, on a Tuesday, he came out with it. There was somebody. Somebody he actually wanted me to meet.

So that Sunday I made an effort.

I cleaned the house — the real kind of cleaning, where you move the couch. I made a pot roast with carrots and potatoes, the way my mother made it. I put out the dishes I only use at Thanksgiving, the white ones with the thin blue band that my grandmother left me.

I wanted it to go well. That’s all I wanted. I wanted my kid to feel like he could bring somebody home and have it be normal and easy and unremarkable.

Tyler had dated before. Two people, both briefly, neither of whom I met.

I had never seen him like this about anybody.

What I Already Knew About Noah Before I Ever Saw His Face

For two weeks I’d been getting Noah in pieces, the way you get information out of a nineteen-year-old — sideways, in the car, while something else is happening.

Noah hated mushrooms. Passionately. Would pick them out of things one at a time and line them up on the edge of the plate like evidence.

Noah played guitar badly, but with total confidence, which Tyler found both irritating and wonderful.

Noah had walked twenty minutes across campus in a spring rainstorm because Tyler had left his laptop at the library and had a paper due at midnight.

That was the one that got me, honestly. That was the one where I thought, okay, I like this kid.

By that Sunday afternoon I felt like I already knew him. I’d made a mental note not to put mushrooms in the gravy.

I was looking forward to it. I want to be very clear about that, because of what happened next. I was genuinely, uncomplicatedly happy that afternoon.

The Doorbell Rang at Four, and My Son Ran to Answer It

Tyler practically sprinted down the hallway. He was grinning in a way I hadn’t seen since he was about fourteen.

I heard voices in the entry. A laugh. Tyler saying something I couldn’t make out.

Then he came into the kitchen with a young man beside him, and my son introduced him with so much pride in his voice that it almost hurt to hear.

“Mom, this is Noah.”

I had the serving spoon in my hand.

And I froze completely.

The Eyes, the Birthmark, and the Necklace

Noah was tall and thin, the way boys are at nineteen before they fill out. Dark hair that curled a little over his ears. Nice smile. A collared shirt that I would bet money his mother had told him to wear.

But it was his eyes.

Gray-blue. Not blue. Not gray. That specific in-between color that I had seen on exactly two people in my entire life — my father, and my younger brother, Michael.

My whole body went cold. Not warm-shock, not adrenaline. Cold, from the middle out.

Then Noah turned his head to say something to Tyler, and I saw the small reddish birthmark just below his left ear.

My fingers tightened on the spoon.

No.

It couldn’t be.

And then I saw the necklace.

A silver pendant hanging outside his collar. Small. Oval. The chain a little too short for his neck, riding high.

And a scratch along the bottom edge, running diagonally, about a half inch long.

I had not seen that pendant in twenty-one years.

But I knew it the way you know your own handwriting.

The Necklace My Father Wore Every Day of My Childhood

That pendant belonged to my father.

He wore it every day of my childhood — under his shirt at the plant, over it on weekends. My mother gave it to him in 1974 and he put it on and basically never took it off again.

The scratch happened in 1986. He was underneath the Buick in our driveway and something came down and caught it. He came inside swearing and my mother told him to be grateful it wasn’t his eye.

When my father died in 2001, my mother gave it to Michael. Her baby. Her boy.

Michael put it on at the funeral and I never saw him without it again.

He was wearing it the last time I saw him.

He was wearing it when he disappeared.

“Diane?”

Somebody was saying my name.

I came back into the room. Noah was looking at me with the polite, slightly worried expression of a nineteen-year-old who thinks he’s already screwed something up.

Tyler said, “Mom?”

His voice had an edge of embarrassment in it, and that edge is what got me moving. That’s the thing that put my face back on.

I made myself smile.

“I’m so sorry. Long day. I’m somewhere else.”

“Mom. Noah.“

“Of course.”

I put the spoon down on the counter before I dropped it, because my hand had started to shake and I could see it.

“It’s so nice to finally meet you.”

Noah smiled. It was a good smile. It was, God help me, my brother’s smile.

“You too. Tyler talks about you constantly.”

“Hopefully only the good parts.”

“Mostly.”

Tyler shoved his shoulder. Noah laughed.

It should have been the most ordinary two minutes of my life. It should have been a moment I forgot inside a week.

Instead I stood in my own kitchen and could not stop looking at that silver pendant.

What Happened in October Twenty-One Years Ago

I need to explain, because otherwise nothing I did next makes any sense.

Michael was twenty-four when he vanished. I was twenty-nine, married, with a two-year-old.

It was a Friday in October. My mother called around seven at night and asked if I’d heard from him, because he hadn’t shown up for dinner and wasn’t answering.

I hadn’t. I told her he was twenty-four and to relax.

By Sunday we were calling everybody he knew. His roommate. Two ex-girlfriends. The guys from his old job.

By Monday we were calling hospitals, which is a thing you don’t understand until you do it — sitting at a kitchen table with a phone book and a legal pad, calling emergency rooms in alphabetical order and describing your brother’s height.

His car turned up eleven days later in a park-and-ride lot forty miles away. Locked. Nothing wrong with it. Half a tank of gas. A jacket on the back seat.

No Michael.

There were searches. There were flyers — my mother made four hundred of them at the copy place on Main and we put them up in three counties.

There were phone calls at eleven at night from people who were sure they’d seen him at a gas station in Kentucky.

There were years of watching the news and hearing “unidentified remains” and feeling your stomach drop and then feeling something worse, which is disappointment, because at least it would have been an answer.

My mother never stopped waiting. She kept his room the same for six years. She kept his cell number active for four.

She died seven years ago. Pancreatic. Fast.

She died without knowing what happened to her son.

And now a stranger was standing in my kitchen wearing his necklace.

Why I Didn’t Ask Him in Front of My Son

I needed to know where he got it.

But I could not ask him in that kitchen with Tyler standing right there beaming at him like he’d won something.

I did not want my son to watch this. Whatever this was going to be, I didn’t want it happening across a pot roast.

So I did the stupidest thing I have ever done in my life.

I turned to Noah and said, “Tyler tells me you like old things.”

Tyler frowned. “I did?”

“I thought you did.”

Noah laughed, a little awkwardly. “I mean — I guess?”

“I’ve got something downstairs you might get a kick out of.”

Tyler looked genuinely bewildered. “Since when do we have anything interesting in the basement?”

“Since before you were born.”

He opened the fridge. “Okay. I’ll grab drinks.”

I gestured toward the basement door off the kitchen.

“Come on, Noah. It’ll take two seconds.”

He followed me. He was polite about it. He said something about how his grandmother had a basement full of Depression glass.

Each step down felt heavier than the one before it.

The Question I Couldn’t Wait to Ask

Our basement is mostly storage. Christmas bins. An exercise bike from 2011. A couch that came out of my mother’s house and that I have never been able to make myself get rid of.

Some of Michael’s things are still down there too. Two boxes. His high school yearbooks. A jacket.

I let Noah step through the door ahead of me onto the landing.

And then, under the bare bulb, I saw that pendant again, and I could not wait one more second.

“Where did you get that necklace?”

He touched it. “This?”

“Yes.”

“My dad gave it to me. For my eighteenth.”

My heart started slamming.

“Your father.”

“Yeah.”

“What’s his name?”

Noah’s smile went away. I think something in my voice had finally reached him.

“Michael.”

The Sound of a Lock Turning

I pulled the basement door shut.

And I turned the key.

I have gone over this a thousand times. I have apologized for it more than once. I am not going to pretend it was rational, because it wasn’t.

What I can tell you is what was actually in my head, which was this: this young man has my brother’s necklace and my brother’s face and my brother’s name and my brother has been gone for twenty-one years, and I do not know what any of that means, and I need him to not leave this house before I find out.

The handle rattled immediately.

“Mrs. — Diane? Ma’am?”

“I’m calling the police,” I said through the door. My voice came out much steadier than I felt. “I’m going to explain everything. Just stay put.”

“What?“

“I’m sorry.”

“Why did you lock me in here? What did I do?”

Footsteps came fast across the kitchen behind me.

“Mom?”

My Son Standing There With Two Cans of Soda

Tyler was holding two Cokes.

He looked at the door. He looked at my hand on the key.

“What are you doing?”

“Tyler. Put those down.”

“What? Mom, what—”

Noah pounded on the door from the other side.

“Tyler!”

And I watched my son’s whole face change. Not confused anymore. Something else.

“Mom. Open the door.”

“I need you to listen to me for one minute.”

“Why is Noah locked in our basement?”

“I have to make a phone call first.”

He stared at me like he had never seen me before.

“Are you serious right now?”

“Yes.”

“Open the door.”

“I will.”

“When?”

“When the police get here.”

His mouth actually fell open.

“The police? Mom, what — he’s nineteen, he plays guitar, what do you think he—”

From downstairs, Noah shouted, “I haven’t done anything!”

“I know,” I called back. “I know you haven’t.”

Tyler threw up his hands.

“Then why are you calling the police?!”

The Photograph in the Bottom of the Cabinet

I went to the cabinet beside the dining room and got down on one knee.

There’s an old photo album on the bottom shelf. Green cover, the sticky-page kind, from my mother’s house.

My hands were shaking so badly I couldn’t get the pages apart.

“Mom. Talk to me. Please.”

I found it.

A barbecue at my parents’ house in 2000. Michael was twenty-two. He was standing next to my father, both of them squinting into the sun, both holding paper plates.

I handed it to Tyler.

“What am I looking at?”

“Your uncle.”

“I know what Uncle Michael looks like, Mom. There’s pictures of him in the hall.”

“Look at his neck.”

Tyler’s eyes went down.

The silver pendant was hanging outside his shirt collar. Clear as anything.

He looked at the basement door. Then back at the photo.

“No.”

“That’s Grandpa’s necklace.”

“Lots of necklaces look like that. That’s a — that’s a normal necklace, Mom.”

“There’s a scratch across the bottom. Grandpa did it under the Buick in 1986. Go look at Noah’s.”

Tyler looked again, closer, holding the album up under the light.

I said, “Noah has a birthmark under his left ear.”

“So?”

“So did Michael. Same side. Same spot.”

Tyler went white. I watched the color leave my son’s face.

“Mom…”

“And he just told me his father’s name is Michael.”

Neither of us said anything.

Then, through the door: “Tyler? Tyler, what is going on up there?”

The Thing My Nineteen-Year-Old Said That Stopped Me Cold

Tyler turned to me.

“Open the door.”

I hesitated.

And my son — nineteen years old, in a t-shirt, still holding a can of Coke — said the thing that no adult in that house had thought of yet.

“Mom. Even if you’re right about every single part of this. Noah still hasn’t done anything.”

That went through me like cold water.

He was right. He was completely, entirely right, and I had been standing there for four minutes without once arriving at it.

I unlocked the door.

What Happened When He Came Up Those Stairs

Noah came up fast.

He was scared and he was furious, and both of those things were showing, and he went straight past me toward Tyler like I was a piece of furniture.

“What is wrong with your mom?”

“I don’t know yet,” Tyler said.

“I told her my dad’s name and she locked me in a basement!”

“I’m sorry,” I said.

Noah turned on me.

“You’re sorry?”

“I panicked.”

“That’s not an explanation.”

“No,” I said. “It isn’t.”

I held out the photograph.

“This is.”

He wouldn’t take it. Tyler did.

Tyler held it up beside Noah’s face, and looked back and forth, and said quietly, “Just — look.”

Noah finally looked down at it.

And I watched his expression come apart.

“Who is that?”

“My uncle Michael,” Tyler said.

Noah frowned. Then he brought it closer to his face.

“Why does he look like my dad?”

Nobody in that kitchen said one word.

Two Officers, a Pot Roast, and a Question I Wasn’t Ready For

The police got there maybe eight minutes later. Two officers from the township department, one of them younger than me and one of them about my age.

By the time they were standing in my dining room, I was beginning to fully appreciate how insane this looked from the outside.

I explained everything. Michael’s disappearance in October twenty-one years ago. The case number, which I know by heart. The pendant. The scratch. The birthmark. The name.

The older officer listened to the whole thing without interrupting, which I appreciated more than I could say.

One of them asked Noah some questions. Where he went to school. Where he grew up. His father’s full name.

Noah answered all of it. He wasn’t under arrest. He hadn’t done anything wrong.

If anything, the person in that room who had committed something that a lawyer could name was me, and everybody knew it, and nobody said it out loud, which I have always been grateful for.

Then the older officer asked Noah a question that I had not thought to ask.

“Where’s your father right now, son?”

Noah looked at him like it was a trick.

“At home.”

My stomach dropped straight through the floor.

“What?”

Noah turned toward me.

“My dad isn’t missing, ma’am. He’s at home. He was mowing when I left.”

I put my hand on the back of a dining chair to hold myself up.

“Where does he live?”

“About two hours from here. Outside Coshocton.”

Two hours.

Two hours.

For twenty-one years I had imagined my brother in a landfill, in a river, in a ditch in a state I’d never been to.

He was two hours away, mowing his lawn.

The room went sideways. Tyler said, “Mom—” and got a hand under my elbow.

Noah shook his head hard.

“This can’t be the same person. My dad’s from — he doesn’t have family. He’s estranged.”

“Call him,” I said.

“What?”

“Please. Call your father.”

The Phone Call in My Dining Room

He hesitated. He looked at the officers. The older one gave a small nod, like up to you.

Then Noah took out his phone.

It rang three times.

“Hey, Dad.”

And even standing six feet away, I heard the voice on the other end.

Older. Deeper. Twenty-one years of wear on it.

But it was Michael. It was absolutely, unmistakably Michael.

My knees nearly went.

Noah glanced at me. Then, carefully:

“Where’d you get Grandpa’s necklace?”

A pause.

“What?”

“The one you gave me. For my birthday.”

Another pause. Longer.

“Noah. Why?”

Noah swallowed hard.

“I’m at Tyler’s house. Tyler from school.”

Silence.

“His mom says she knows the necklace.”

Nothing at all from the other end.

Then Noah said:

“Her name is Diane.”

Twenty-One Years, and He Said My Name Like It Was Tuesday

The silence on that line went on so long that Tyler said, “Did it drop?”

Then, out of my son’s boyfriend’s phone, in my dining room, with two police officers standing near my pot roast:

“…Diane?”

I covered my mouth with both hands.

Twenty-one years.

Twenty-one years of hospitals and flyers and my mother’s face, and my brother said my name like we’d talked last Tuesday.

Noah held the phone out to me.

I couldn’t take it. I physically could not lift my arm.

Tyler put his hand on my shoulder.

And then I did.

“Michael?”

His breathing changed. I could hear it.

“Diane.”

I closed my eyes.

“You’re alive.”

There was a long pause.

“I’m sorry.”

That was it. That was what he had. Two words.

What I Said to My Brother in Front of Everyone

I had imagined that conversation approximately ten thousand times.

In some versions the police found him and I got a phone call. In some versions he showed up at my mother’s door on a Sunday. Sometimes in my head I screamed at him. Sometimes I just held onto him and didn’t say anything at all.

I never once imagined standing in my kitchen next to my son’s boyfriend, who was also my nephew, while two officers pretended to look at their shoes.

“Mom died,” I said.

He started crying. I heard it.

“I know.”

And something came up in me so fast that it frightened me.

“You know?“

“Diane—”

“How do you know?”

“I found the obituary. Online. A few months after.”

“You knew she was dead and you didn’t come.”

“Please let me—”

“She waited for you.”

“I know.”

“No, you don’t. She kept your room the same for six years. She kept your phone number active. She called hospitals, Michael. She sat at her kitchen table with a phone book.”

Everybody in that room was staring at me. I did not care in the slightest.

“She waited twenty-one years and then she died.”

“Diane, please. Let me explain. Let me—”

“Then come here.”

Silence.

“I don’t know if I can.”

I almost laughed out loud.

“You’ve had twenty-one years to decide.”

What His Son Said to Him

Noah had been staring at the floor through all of this.

Then he lifted his head and said, in a completely flat voice:

“Dad. Come here.”

Michael went quiet.

“Dad.”

“I heard you.”

“No. You don’t get to do that thing. You don’t get to go quiet.”

Noah’s voice had started to shake.

“You knew I had family?”

There was a long pause on that line.

“Yes.”

“And you let me think I didn’t.”

“Noah, it’s complicated—”

“No, it isn’t. Did you know about Aunt Diane?”

My brother did not answer.

And Noah looked at me when he said the word aunt.

Then he turned and looked at Tyler.

And I watched all the color go out of his face at once.

“Wait.”

Tyler got there at the exact same second. I saw it hit both of them, half a beat apart.

“Oh my God,” Tyler said.

Noah took a step backward.

“If she’s your mom—”

Tyler said, “Michael’s her brother.”

Noah whispered, “Then we’re—”

“Cousins,” I said.

Neither of them said anything.

Noah sat down. Just sat, hard, in the nearest dining chair.

Tyler sat at the opposite end of the table, as far away as the room allowed.

That Sunday dinner was over before anybody sat down to it. The pot roast stayed in the oven until eleven that night, and I threw all of it away the next morning.

When the Doorbell Rang Two Hours Later

Michael came.

I’ll give him that. It took him two hours and eleven minutes and he came.

When the bell rang I could not move. I stood in the middle of my own living room and could not make my legs work.

Tyler opened the door.

My brother was standing on my porch.

Forty-five years old. Gray at the temples. Deep lines beside his eyes. He’d put on weight, which was the strangest part — I’d carried a twenty-four-year-old in my head for two decades.

But it was Michael. It was my little brother.

He was alive and he was standing on my porch in a windbreaker.

I didn’t hug him.

I want to be honest about that. Everybody assumes I did. I didn’t. I stood there with my arms at my sides.

He stepped inside.

“Diane.”

And I had exactly one question.

“Did Mom ever know? Ever? At any point?”

His eyes filled up.

“No.”

That hurt worse than anything else that happened that day.

What He Told Me Standing in My Living Room

“Why?”

He looked over at Noah, sitting on the couch.

“Can we sit down?”

“No. Tell me.”

He dragged both hands down his face.

And then he told me, standing up, in his coat.

When he disappeared, he’d been drowning. He’d lost his job in August and hidden it from all of us — from Mom, from me, from everyone. He’d been out of work for ten weeks and told us he was fine.

He had debt he’d built trying to cover the gap. A lot of it. Some of it the kind you can’t refinance.

He was ashamed. That’s the word he used, over and over, that night and every conversation since.

And he was in a very bad place inside himself, and he had somehow talked himself into the idea that everyone he loved would be better off if he simply wasn’t a problem anymore.

So he left the car in a lot, got on a bus, and started over in a different state under a slightly different version of his name.

“I thought I’d come back,” he said.

“When?”

“When I got myself straightened out.”

“And when was that?”

He looked at the carpet.

“A year?” I said. “Two? Five?”

“Diane.”

“Ten?”

“Diane, please.”

“Mom called hospitals, Michael.”

“I know.”

“She kept your room.”

“I know.”

“She thought you were dead in a ditch somewhere. She said that out loud to me, in a car, in 2009.”

“I know.”

“You don’t get to keep saying that.”

He was crying by then, openly, standing up in my living room.

“I was ashamed,” he said. “I was so ashamed I couldn’t—”

And I said the thing I’ve thought about every day since.

“You didn’t have to come back fixed.”

He looked up at me.

“You just had to come back alive.”

How Every Missed Year Made the Next One Harder

Nobody said anything for a while.

He told us the rest in pieces.

He’d met Noah’s mother about four years in. He told her he was estranged from his family after a bad falling-out.

Which was technically true. There was a falling-out.

Except we had never participated in it. We didn’t know it existed. My mother went to her grave not knowing she’d been on one side of a fight.

And then years went by, and coming back got harder instead of easier, which is the thing about that kind of silence that nobody tells you.

Every birthday he missed was a new reason not to call. Every Christmas. Every funeral. Every milestone became another thing he’d have to explain, and the pile got taller, and at some point the pile was taller than he was.

“I kept thinking you’d hate me,” he said.

“I did hate you sometimes.”

He nodded. “I understand.”

“No, you don’t. I hated you when I thought you were dead. I hated you for leaving me alone with Mom’s grief for fourteen years. And I hated you because being angry at you was easier than lying awake wondering where your body was.”

He cried harder.

The Question His Son Finally Asked Him

Noah had been silent on that couch the entire time.

Then he stood up.

“What about me?”

Michael turned. “Noah—”

“You knew I had an aunt.”

“Yes.”

“A cousin.”

“Yes.”

“And you never said one word.”

“I didn’t know how.”

Noah laughed, and it was an awful sound.

“You didn’t know how.“

He pointed at Tyler.

“I brought my boyfriend home to meet his mother, and she turned out to be my aunt. Do you understand what you did? Do you understand what that is?”

“I’m sorry.”

“Stop saying that.”

Michael went quiet.

Noah grabbed his jacket off the back of the chair.

“I’m going.”

Tyler stood up. “I’ll drive you.”

Noah hesitated. Then nodded.

The Apology I Owed Him Before He Walked Out

At the door, he looked back at me.

“Noah.”

He stopped.

“I owe you an apology.”

His eyebrows went up.

“For which part?”

And despite absolutely everything, I almost laughed.

“The basement is probably the place to start.”

He didn’t smile. Not then.

“I shouldn’t have locked you in there. You hadn’t done one thing wrong and I did that to you, and I’m sorry.”

“No,” he said. “I hadn’t.”

“I was scared out of my mind.”

“So was I.”

“I know. I know you were.”

He nodded once. Just once.

Then he left with Tyler.

The Months After, and the Thing That Never Got Discussed

Michael stayed. We talked until almost midnight, sitting at the kitchen table with the pot roast still in the oven behind us.

I did not forgive him that night. I want to say that clearly, because people always want the part where I forgive him and it did not happen that night and it did not happen for a long time.

For months afterward it moved in inches.

A phone call. Then two weeks of nothing. Coffee at a diner in Coshocton where neither of us ate. Another argument. Another apology. Then a week of silence while we both recovered.

That’s what it actually looks like. It’s not a hug in a doorway. It’s a slow, ugly, halting thing that takes years and might not finish.

Noah and Tyler ended it immediately.

There was no discussion about that. There didn’t need to be. They were first cousins and neither one had known and it was over the second they understood.

For a while they avoided each other entirely, because neither one had any idea what else to do with it. Tyler went back to school in August and didn’t mention his name for four months.

And then, slowly, they started talking again.

Not as boyfriends. As two nineteen-year-olds who had been dropped into the middle of the same impossible thing and were the only two people on earth who understood exactly how it felt.

The First Time It Felt Survivable

About six months later, I came into my kitchen on a Saturday afternoon and found the two of them on the couch in the next room arguing over a video game.

“No way,” Tyler was saying. “You absolutely cheated.”

“You’ve been losing to me since the day we met.”

“That was before I knew we shared DNA.”

Noah looked over and saw me standing in the doorway.

“We’re allowed one joke,” he said.

“One,” I said.

They both laughed.

It was the first time the whole thing felt like something we might all live through.

Standing at My Mother’s Grave With My Brother

That fall, Michael and I went to the cemetery in Millersburg.

He stood in front of her headstone for a long time without saying anything. Long enough that I got cold.

Finally he said, “I thought she’d hate me.”

I looked at the side of his face.

“She would’ve been furious with you.”

He nodded.

“She would also have wanted you home. Both things. At the same time. That’s how she was about you.”

He started to cry.

And this time I put my hand on his shoulder and left it there.

That wasn’t forgiveness either. I want to be precise about that.

But it was closer than I’d been.

The Second Sunday Dinner, One Year Later

The following spring, I did it again.

Same house. Same cleaning. Same pot roast, no mushrooms in the gravy.

Same dishes — the white ones with the blue band, from my grandmother.

Tyler was there. Noah came. Michael sat across from me and didn’t say much and ate everything on his plate.

At one point I looked around that table and thought about the first Sunday.

I had cleaned my house because my son was bringing home someone who mattered to him. I’d worried about whether the roast would be dry and whether I’d say something to embarrass him.

And then a nineteen-year-old walked through my door wearing a necklace I’d last seen on my missing brother, and I locked him in my basement.

For twenty-one years I’d imagined every possible explanation for what happened to Michael. Every one of them.

I never once imagined that my son would fall for a boy at college and bring him home for pot roast.

I thought I called the police that day because a stranger had walked into my house wearing something that belonged to someone I’d lost.

What I didn’t understand — not for hours, not until my hands were shaking around a phone in my own dining room — was that the stranger wasn’t the person I’d lost at all.

He was the one who was about to bring me back to him.

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