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snapped taking a st

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all he just leaned ag

hough we were having

, can't you? Business is

ryone wants a taste of whatever little touch

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m starting to see that

ife!!"

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ssed with yourself an

be so dam

pointing to the back

take, Adeline, you a

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d reached for the door

him to go. Theodore

t when I didn't he wal

he door shut and

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she says and I knot

r father, is not stupid

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l smile "Thanks" I s

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k drawer and pulled o

elonged to my mother.

hat I could recite cert

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ther, but she had nev

ails and clues that

s an old locket with a

graph inside. My mothe

d me who the man in t

father, but the imag

sible to make out

ayed in my head again

t to the drawer

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sing something th

in front of the windo

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let someone like him t

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top and started answe

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