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The Inheritance of Quiet Rooms
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The tape machine still works. Surprising. The tape crackles, then their father's voice fills the room. Older than they remember it. Softer. "I need to tell you things I can't say out loud," he says. "Not while I'm alive." And then he starts talking.
"I stole from the business," he says flatly. "Not a huge amount. Forty thousand over fifteen years. I was... I don't know. Scared." He coughs on the tape. "I put it back. Most of it. But there's documentation. The accountant might find it."
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