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On his way home Braddock stopped at the local meat market and bought thick ribeye steaks. An hour later, he and his son Quinn talked and relaxed on the deck, letting the grill heat up. Braddock lamented the fact that a case like this took him away from his ever-growing and maturing eleven-year-old son. Quinn would be tall like his father yet had the soft facial features and light wavy brown hair of his mother. Thankfully, the boy’s grandparents lived a half-mile down the road, and five cousins, two of whom were his exact same age and grade, lived not much farther away than that. The three of them were inseparable, whether it was hanging out, going to school, or playing baseball or hockey. Braddock felt blessed that the grandparents, the aunts and uncles, the cousins all looked after his son at times like this.
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