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tices, local business listings, and a photograph

. He had short brown hair, a broad smile, and the kind

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at the ph

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of him lying dead in

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short local

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my pho

my hand sudden

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fingers again

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possible explanation. I checked the soles of my shoes,

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explained the

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t would

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took a

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hought ente

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fa when I heard his key

unbuttoned, and his dark hair was slightly di

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was

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proper statement.

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kitchen and poured him

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red a

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my heartbeat

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think I m

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tell him abo

andbag onto the table

coul

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longed to Daniel Reeves, there wa

carrying part o

left to return

ct instructions to remain ins

gre

ppeared, I took the pla

hen counter and exami

rn along one edge. The label was fad

.

the fragm

thing caught i

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d between

mall brown stain n

ned c

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mach t

ed the

seconds, I c

Reeves again. This time, I found a social

him standing outside a small build

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e and scrolled thro

is family, photographs of the tow

ne posted thre

side a group of people near

our men in t

was one

n wore a d

ged the

t looked

de of black as the

r, but the photogr

aptio

Blackwood Historical Society. Some p

d it

comment beneath

histories should

aniel appeared a

cially the ones tha

ling moved th

nt, but something about t

velyn Mars

unt was

n older woman with silver hair standing

d at he

out her seem

the pho

omewhe

't remem

suddenly

comin

wn nu

d at th

I considered

I ans

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le

's t

h came throug

an's voice

found

od ran

are

ave kept that pi

the plastic bag

is

sn't the f

ped th

do you

the first one

th wen

are

pa

woman spo

happened sev

all e

in the kitchen, list

year

ember what had

only a short time. Ben and I had known

been a win

ing te

rch p

st that the newspapers ha

red the h

red the p

emember how the

e buzze

m the same un

looking into

message

ull moon will bring

endar hanging besid

was circl

xt ful

ted th

ers wen

oser than

ered whether the missing hours

meone had

side the police station, staring

s at the forest gather

arged t

e edge of the group, wa

a H

aned

black jacket Daniel had

cked th

photograph taken

ic had been collected from t

ed the tw

lour m

tching

mach ti

hone

rve

spoke on t

something else in t

ha

report seven years ago. The person h

t stra

am

pa

officer

yn Ma

k at the photo

go, a girl ha

l Reeves

somehow conne

en wondered whether the woman he loved was hiding s