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Ryder went and sat down beside her, ignoring how cold the ground was. He stuck his hand into his pocket and pulled out the ageing newspaper clipping. He'd folded it and unfolded it so many times now that it was begining to become pretty worn out. He handed it to Sarah wordlessly and waited a moment before he said anything. "It's a wedding announcement," he told her. "I was so happy and pleased when I found it, and just glad that her life turned out okay," he said. He paused for a minute, and then pulled the other clipping that he had found out of his pocket and handed it to her. "A birth announcement," he said, "she named her first born after me." he finished, a note of pride in his voice.
Smiling Sarah leant forward and took the discoloured paper from Ryder's hand.Quietly she read,taking in every word,as well as listening to what he said about it.She was so pleased that he finally found something about his sister,all the hard work and long hours he'd put in in the library had paid off.But she couldn't help feeling a twinge of sadness that he never got to be there for it in the flesh.
Refolding the paper as carefully as she could,Sarah handed it back to him,before taking the other he was offering her.
"I'm glad you found out what happened to her,Ryder,and that she lived a good life! And a baby named after you,how lovely!" She was starting to tear up now,but tried to hide it by blinking furiously and pretending to cough.The last thing she wanted was to drip over this precious piece of paper.
Again folding it carefully,Sarah placed it in her lap and looked back over to Ryder.A thought had come to her,one she decided to share....
"You know...maybe you still have family around? If your sister had children they might have had some too,and so on.Your great great nieces and nephews could be alive,if you know what I mean." She bit her lip and tilted her head to the side,hoping that she hadn't said the wrong thing.