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— And then she’s forcing the same paper from earlier back into my hand, the right way around this time, so Frank’s black and white face is staring straight back up at me.
‘Missing’
Except that’s not his name underneath. And that’s not my address, or his mom’s phone number.
“There’s a lot of them down by us.” She says, words hard and cut up. “You might want look into getting them cleared up.” —
(Frank was working in the south tower the day it happened. A month after September 11th, Gerard is still grieving his death. Between juggling trying to protect his younger brother from the bigotry of his parents, maintain a job which he struggles to get out of bed for in the mornings, watching stories of families being reunited weeks after the attack with jealous apathy and fighting off the urge to head to the local liquor store, he’s given up any hope of ever really being happy again.
That is until a missing poster turns up stamped with Frank’s face but paired with a different name. Gerard is suddenly sent down a spiralling path of lies, deceit, mistrust, all the while falling hopelessly in love with the man he thought he knew all over again.)