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y ached from sleeping in her damp
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tone. She opened her settings, sel
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g the dark circles under her eyes. She walke
dollars to buy a chea
house office of the Ree
, looking down at the city. The cut on his lower lip
opened. Kelton walk
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um. She was tryi
ives her a room. No one extends her a line of credit. Put the word
ir, if she has no mo
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et box holding the pink diamond necklace. He slammed the drawer shut. She
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t, a massive digital billboar
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ing band-the only piece of jewelry she hadn't left behind-and traded it to the paw
he wobbly desk, pulled out a piece of c
crude, legally bind
down hard, signing her name at the bott
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