The Blurry Lies Between The Lines

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father's world. She was meant to keep me tied to

did love

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nodded.

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believe him.

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outside was empty, but something caught her eye. A pie

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t note from her father's notebook. "Then let's go t

d the small red laser dot that blinked on

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