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of a dark room. I didn't understand why I was

of them in black suits, and their eyes

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everything I k

mother when her son, Daniel, who w

ter me, and this place was the only home

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where I came from

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stepped off the platf

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the men talking and

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go home

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her head; her

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tears in

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cry. I promise to visit," she s

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hugged it tig

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n't see

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blindfold. It was late in the night, but what

dentical white mansions. Each behind stone

of the mansions and too

giant bed covered with a bed sheet

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me to rest an

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omen dressed in the same uniform

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word to me, the

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me, and he paus

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dge of the bed. He took a slow drag fro

said, and exh

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attered, bloodied, their bod

ollowed, thei

terrified me. Then my horror intensif

ipped away in

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in horror, burying it

d, fingers like iron, pushing my

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