00:00The explosions woke the whole town in the middle of the night.
00:02No one should have been setting off fireworks in November.
00:05Not like that.
00:06Not in those quantities.
00:07Then, half the sky ignited.
00:09I ran to the window in my sleep clothes just as crowns and willows and crackling tails
00:13burst over the dark.
00:15One layer after another.
00:16Every shape the factory could make seemed to be going up at once.
00:19Confetti bursts sprayed across the sky.
00:21Smoke swallowed the clouds.
00:23The shock from the blasts slapped against my bedroom window hard enough to rattle the
00:27frame.
00:27Paper drifted through the dark.
00:29It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.
00:31And somehow I was already crying.
00:33I stood there staring upward while the colors broke apart over the town.
00:36Then the rest of the memory caught up with me.
00:38My father had gone out that night.
00:40He had left the house before the explosion started.
00:42At five.
00:43I did not know how to name Dred yet.
00:45I only knew something inside me was already collapsing while the whole sky burned.
00:49I turned from the window and looked toward the hallway waiting for him to come back through
00:52the door.
00:53He never did.
00:55That was the last night he left home.
00:57My voice came out flatter than I expected.
01:00He went out before the fireworks.
01:01I watched Daniel's face as I said the last words.
01:04And he never came back.
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