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ensive perfume of Nicole' s political donors. I mentioned it to my wife,

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r the cameras. "It's probably just the new catering ovens

hich this "fundraiser" was supposed to be celebrating. I was just the stay-at-home dad, the quiet husband of a risi

e magic of it all. I started towards her, the scent of g

e the ex

d. Screams echoed around me, but all I could hear was a high-pitched ringing in my ears. I saw Lily,

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ire, my only thought to get to my daughter. I found her near the base of the ruined s

the second

. The last thing I saw before the darkness took me was the beautiful, intricate ceiling I had designed for t