She whispered, "He's not crying. Why is he not crying?"
Will finally managed to speak. "He knows no one will come."
-Karin Slaughter "Undone" (a Will Trent novel, featuring a central character who grew up in the foster care system) (& a painfully relatable scene, as while I was told I cried the whole night when I was taken from the foster home at the age of 11 months, I learned all too quickly that wouldn't work, and so was also told that I was smiling at everyone in church the very next Sunday)
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