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Emendare — R.E. Bradshaw
“Her name is Jane Doe? Really? You aren't joking?”
“Yes. Her father's name was John Doe. Her mother's last name was Smith. Jane Smith Doe, that's her. Her dad said he guaranteed her anonymity for life. Thought it was funny.”
Forty years away from Doe's Ferry, it didn't take long for word to get around that Jane Doe had come home. Most people remained unconcerned with her arrival -- memories of young Jane having been long forgotten or never known. But like any tiny place with tiny minds, the whispers at her sudden reappearance revived old rumors and fanned long cold embers into a blaze.
“So, you haven't set foot in Doe's Ferry since 1979, what finally brought you back?”
“Do I have to answer that question?”
“You didn't come home when your father died in 2000. With your history, you can see why this sudden appearance would concern me.”
“My history? Which part? The part where we were cradle to grave friends, all of us, or the part where one of us died, three of us lied, and one of us went to prison.”
“I'm assuming that means this isn't a nostalgic trip home.”
“No point in pretending…”
There were those who wished Jane had stayed gone. Most folks were willing to let the past die with the ones that lived it -- but not Jane, and not the person who sent the package that summoned her home. Wrongs needed righting. The time had come for the truth of what happened at Doe's Ferry to come to light. Jane Doe has come home to amend the record, to make it right: Emendare.
“Yes. Her father's name was John Doe. Her mother's last name was Smith. Jane Smith Doe, that's her. Her dad said he guaranteed her anonymity for life. Thought it was funny.”
Forty years away from Doe's Ferry, it didn't take long for word to get around that Jane Doe had come home. Most people remained unconcerned with her arrival -- memories of young Jane having been long forgotten or never known. But like any tiny place with tiny minds, the whispers at her sudden reappearance revived old rumors and fanned long cold embers into a blaze.
“So, you haven't set foot in Doe's Ferry since 1979, what finally brought you back?”
“Do I have to answer that question?”
“You didn't come home when your father died in 2000. With your history, you can see why this sudden appearance would concern me.”
“My history? Which part? The part where we were cradle to grave friends, all of us, or the part where one of us died, three of us lied, and one of us went to prison.”
“I'm assuming that means this isn't a nostalgic trip home.”
“No point in pretending…”
There were those who wished Jane had stayed gone. Most folks were willing to let the past die with the ones that lived it -- but not Jane, and not the person who sent the package that summoned her home. Wrongs needed righting. The time had come for the truth of what happened at Doe's Ferry to come to light. Jane Doe has come home to amend the record, to make it right: Emendare.
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