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  • Chapter ooo ------------------15 years ago "Unni, why isn’t mom and dad waking up?!" Misan, 7, continues to shake her fathers’ hand, trying to wake him up. "Appa! Appa!" Soo min, ...
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  • The smell of blood stained our clothes, the night, engulfing us both in our fight to be safe. I can sense danger ahead but my hand tightly held my sisters’. ...
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  • Prologue. "Alone, I stand here in this unprotected place. War killing everyone around me. Alone, I fend for myself. Led your hand, and take me to my Sanctuary place. Alone, ...
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  • Even so, we never really got a chance to contact one another consistently. There's never a day that passes that I don't wish I had stayed in contact with my ...
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  • You are bent over your notebook, writing, almost cautiously. You're letting your hair fall over your face, shielding yourself from the world. I want inside that bubble of detachment. I ...
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  • As I ran through the stone alleys in the Vatican City of Italy, I couldn’t help but notice what a knack I had for getting into trouble. Sure, maybe it ...
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  • Nell woke up when the television turned on. She sat up straight and looked around. Derek had a remote in his hand and had turned on his TV. He was ...
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  • 8/25 Yoga and writing two days ago helped bring everything back into to life for me-- my priorities, my goals, etc. But later that evening, I started to think-- I ...
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  • money bled everywhere. melted as it fell. not a single piece of the paper even lasted to the ground - who had thought that it could find its way to ...
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  • Once we had reached the airport, I had felt like crying. I do now anyway. It's hard what military children have to go through. We have to grow up before ...
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