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Just Like the Ones He Used to Know: Part IV
This is the fourth installment of Robert J. Wiersema’s holiday tale of the ghostly and the miraculous, written exclusively for [email protected] and appearing every day until Christmas Eve. Wiersema is the author of the national bestseller Before I Wake and the novella The World More Full of Weeping.
Graham awoke in a strange room, in a strange bed, bathed in cold blue-white light. His head was throbbing, and he had no memory of how he had arrived there. Turning slightly on the pillow, which smelled of unfamiliar shampoo, he found himself looking at the back of a woman’s head. Red hair. Tussled.
Ah. Christmas.
It was as close as he came to a tradition these days.