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  • Yeah, I picked up that she wasn't from around her. Her voice rolled her 'R's and 'A's differently to me. Also her 'ou' in country was spoken differently, more elegant ...
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  • answered weakly. Obviously, there was, because my mom was hesitant to answer me. I could read between the lines; I wasn't one of those average, ordinary idiots that my high ...
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  • lets see how to describe how i am feeling right now.After finding Jackie and seeing what is in my head I am ashamed that all I want to to be ...
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  • Prologue: Elnora listened to the sound of her boots slapping against the wet cement, watched her feet stepping along the sidewalk, as if her legs were carrying her without the ...
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  • I have tried to haunt like the masters. In my lifetime, which now seems so long ago, I watched every Poltergeist, every 13 Ghosts with my face shrouded in the ...
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  • Falling from the clouds in drifting fashion, ashes drift down to the earth from smoke plumes overhead. Watching from down below, we humans see this different phenomenon effect us in ...
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  • Well this is what financial hardship feels like. Mom just took a sixty percent pay cut from an already pitifully low salary. Dad hasn't paid child support in eight months ...
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  • Lake Lovely Nine miles long, less than a mile wide at the narrowest point, Lake Lovely is holds in its arms a mix of people that goes back a century ...
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  • is called Lia; she is my housekeeper, cook, and lifelong friend. By the way--Octavia. Is it pronounced that way?' 'Yes, that's right.' 'It's a wonderful name. Full of magical potential. ...
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