My aunt laughs. I laugh. Amandine does not laugh. She returns to her steak haché and her frites , cutting each fry into exactly four smaller fries before eating them, one by one, in silence. She is nine. She is already a tiny, ruthless editor of my soul.

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Chapter 57: La Dernière Nuit (The Last Night) – Amélie reveals she has been covering up her own loneliness; moving schools every year with her diplomat parents. “You think I’m better,” she says. “But you have real friends who know you. I have 57 postcards from 57 cities. No one to send them to.” Sam gives her a stamped envelope with his address. “Better now,” he whispers.

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