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t him throug
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a hand again
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trying to
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sing eve
into the darkn
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as a
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without knowing why his pres
daug
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quieter when h
know wh
ane
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ow anything
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ck swa
k their father
couldn't
leaned
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w wh
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ne fr
ha
m hearing this fr
art sk
re you
to walk into their lives and
tared at
the conversation began,
contr
righteni
stake that fo
's eyes
pect you to
know what
pau
t y
ilence f
endric
ou leave t
's hear
as harder than
me it mean
brows pulle
old you to
dn't ha
ughed
that what happened betwe
at's what we
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what c
the bedroom where th
ey
k said
never part
ice so
ard their heartbeats
k looke
while he had been living his life, Meth
ieces of him he had
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. Lillian will be there. We n
tared at t
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was stil
ve to
was bare
you a
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t only
ed the
wly lowered
at the bl
was no long
hat wasn't the
w had a place in the lives of the two chi
what that would me
rick arrived at hi
oom was alre
t at the head
him was
p when Kendr
ile wa
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ok hi
poured hims
discuss th
k looke
ton
s expressio
recisely
remained
k leane
anyone until I s
ther f
more important than th
looked at
k at his
chil
ent comple
smile di
ass stopped hal
did yo
's voice
I have c
ized that the woman from Kendrick's past
mother of
re his family had
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