“I’ll Be Waiting,” She Said

It was a road of broken promises.

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Rumors followed Stacey whether she liked it or not. It had been that way since she was a baby, born to a once-famous mother who fled the small town life as soon as the ink of her signature dried on the divorce papers. She imagined how those days might have been for her hapless father, a caring man whose backwater charm hadn’t been enough to keep an aging…