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e go?" he ask

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urtyard. I had an old sed

he passenger seat. He was

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on,

the drive

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somew

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into the car.

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threw it on the ground, stan

ow get of

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ack, filled with

alled from the porch, wine glas

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into the

agged, wading through waist-de

aughed. "A sewer rat i

s. I waded out,

car. "I got

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th

out the

a kitchen knife. She ha

led. "Looks lik

stopped

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at me. Slime-covere

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and on his ch

into him. I screamed interna

ed. I had given

uez wa

ned a

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ed. Not a sound, but the b

e up. And she was