I said. I wasn’t a big believer in coincidences, although I knew they could happen. “When the detective reported everything back to you, he must have included the names of my wife and daughter.”“He did.”“So when Patty said she had a friend named Sydney, didn’t that set off any bells?”“In the report I got, your daughter’s name was down as Francine,” Carol Swain said.Francine was Sydney’s first name, the name that showed up on her birth certificate. But when she was just a toddler, her second name, Sydney—and ultimately, Syd—just seemed to suit her better, and we stopped calling her Francine altogether.I explained this to Patty’s mother. “So there was never a time that I suspected,” she said. “Maybe, if Patty had ever brought your daughter around, I’d have noticed some similarities.”“This report you got from the detective,” I asked. “Do you still have it?” She nodded. “Is it here, in the house?” She nodded again. “So then maybe Patty found it.”“I don’t think so,”
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