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The Montana winter sun barely crept over the Rockies when Victor Ramsay guided his pickup into the gravel driveway of Milwood Creek High School. Twenty years as an Army Ranger had taught him to appreciate silence\u2014the kind that came before dawn, before the world woke with its demands and complications. He\u2019d returned to this small town three years ago after his discharge, hoping it would give his fifteen-year-old son Drew something Victor never had growing up on military bases: stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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