He’s still allowed some DVDs and access to the home telephone but no mobile. Certainly no internet. It’s for his own protection. ‘What are you going to ban next? Velcro?’ he jokes with his parents because they need to know they’re doing the right thing. But Sean has already seen the photograph. It had been slipped into his locker back when he was still at school. Someone had pasted it inside a With Condolences card and written his name on the envelope. When he thinks about it now, Sean presumes whoever put it there watched him open the card, but it’s not possible for him to recall much about that day. He remembers a long pause while his eyes and mind cooperated to confirm what he was seeing: inside the card was the photo of his sister’s body after the accident. He has an idea who spread the email from the police photographer, but if he says his parents will know he’s seen it.
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