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r desk in the

her's lesson, but her mi

the classroom chatter were

r father's arrest and inca

through her young life.

d play together, when her

passing day, the pain inte

deeper in

, unforgivin

ated, a pariah among her

er deeper than a knife. Ev

nion, now distanced her

ts won't let me ta

within her li

f it all. It was her fath

the life th

ce a smolderin

at scorched her insides.

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our fault,"

aming down her face. "I

done to Mo

confident and

ke a wounded animal. The

ang in her ears like a sic

world. In an effort to a

rary or, on warm afternoo

on't leave this clas

almost gothic

nd no solace, no relief fr

ion. Her grandfather, Jona

a far cry from the warm

a delicate woman with col

ins were like shadows in

her view but never tr

ragged on, sh

er into solitude, her only

d to echo through t

ls that once

rings now seemed to clos

ven the once-treasured Ch

a cruel reminder o

ong here," s

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sn't my

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's bedroom with her arms

fa

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unmade, and what's that

're turning into a lit

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you're tal

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l you somet

and dangerous. "Your f

ied, he destroyed lives.

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, let me tell you somethin

her Hawthorne, doomed to

est

lazed with de

l down her cheeks.

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granite. "You're not li

just like him. Do you wa

g, the girl who destroyed

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t the words, fe

to shreds. She opened her

but no wo

suffocating c

vy oak door slam shut be

oor as she ran down the ha

yard. The warm spring air

t the searing pain in he

ng her face as hot, salt

trice's words crushed her

growing in her mind li