LILY’s POV “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.” ― Lao Tzu I should have known. The signs were glaringly obvious, hidden in plain sight. It was just that no one in the family ever talked about Rose’s OCD, no one in the family ever brought it to light. The frequent handwashing, the need for symmetry in her laundry, the endless combing of her hair, the refusal to touch anything ‘dirty’….now that I think back, Ian is right. But Rose never hurt anyone. “Luke and I saw Rose and little Thomas at your father’s grave one evening when we were still back at Tussano. They didn’t see us but she kept shifting the stake’s position in the soil, muttering over and over that it was this or that was the best position. And when she was done, she had your brother wipe the stake repeatedly, saying that it was unclean. Your brother was crying, it seemed like he wanted to go home and sleep but she had
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