It was one thing for a grandparent to withhold something [...] from a grandchild, quite another for a father to keep it from his son-and for so long. (Ransom Riggs)

It was one thing for a grandparent to withhold something [...] from a grandchild, quite another for a father to keep it from his son-and for so long.

Ransom Riggs

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