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Five years ago, I buried my best friend, Miriam, and took in her baby, vowing to raise her as my own. We were happy until three nights ago, when my daughter, Rosaline, started speaking a language she had never learned. What she said sent me into the attic with a flashlight and ended with the police in my kitchen.
I am not someone who believes in the supernatural. I’m practical. I pay bills on time. I keep a first-aid kit in the car. When Rosaline has a nightmare, I check under the bed to prove there are no monsters, and we move on.
But three nights ago, at 2:00 a.m., the baby monitor crackled. Rosaline’s voice came through — calm, fluent, and speaking words I didn’t recognize. It wasn’t babbling. It wasn’t the half-formed sounds of a child talking in her sleep. It had a fluency that sent a cold ripple down my spine.
I went to her room and touched her shoulder gently. She opened her eyes, calm as if she had never been asleep. “Did you have a bad dream, baby?” I asked. “No, Mom,” she replied, turning over. I almost convinced myself it was nothing.
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