The Angel Who Burned: A Small Town's Inferno

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ry pleaded, tears streaming down h

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when she looked at her mother,

her father. "Under my name. It' s for Michael. Make

stared,

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s almost didn' t catch it, "Tell him I di

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ighten in his stomach.