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sat across the city, I would wake up early, cook quietly, pack everything

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deserve to stand rig

everything about myself

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ng with urgency. "Time for you to act as his

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t it?" I found

hand gently caress my hair. "I saw the he

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, he might think it was me

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ell on me.

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it when it died down and a notifica

ng my shoulder before turning my gaze back at Mara

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er when my phone rang again-the same