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Just Like the Ones He Used to Know: Part VIII
This is the eighth and final installment of Robert J. Wiersema’s holiday tale of the ghostly and the miraculous, written exclusively for [email protected] Wiersema is the author of the national bestseller Before I Wake and the novella The World More Full of Weeping.
“Don’t you look smashing,” his mother said, swanning into his bedroom as Dustin was finishing tying his tie.
“I was a bit worried,” he said, rolling his shoulders to let the suit fall right. “I thought it might not fit.”
She ran her hand over his lapel, straightened his pocket square.
“I’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I wore it,” he continued. “But it still seems to fit.”
She stopped, and he could almost hear her holding her breath.
“It’s all right,” he said quietly. “I know.”