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, I died outside the iron gates of
veral houses were burning at once, and blood-covere
all iron gate, telling Damon over and ov
pen the gate for
let me inside befo
never
ready another woman
one hand protectively rest
ate telling my own husband that the baby ins
t disturbingly ca
re ly
a zombie lunged
nk into my calf, I was
to the ground, I sti
would rather stand safely behind those gates a
again, the zombie apocal
g home with divorce
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in was
ite
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outside. No streets bu
beside the cou
y handwriting were scatter
down at o
I'm p
several different versi
been seriously thinking about how
ust tell h
ease him i
r the past few years, and our rel
ng him too suddenly might lea
cards now, all I fe
, I had already seen the
de those iron gates for
een an ordina
the f
at hadn't h
stinctively pressed
y begun to settle when
was
ed into the living roo
-blue folder tuc
ew tonight was unfolding e
take off
asn't plannin
ced the folder down, accidentally covering
dn't
adn't noticed anythi
months ago, he had underg
ults we
diately, but he had far les
ate, if he didn't have a legal heir, both the
l with our marriage
pushed the folder s
ce pa
of that, I was cal
him di
s carrying your
didn't
ief silence
verything b
he future hadn't appeared
already part of
wife who had been
hat I had planned to tell him
ome home first wi
t explain a
verything needed to
ranged the divisi
ing we needed
gned, things would be
down at t
ritten for him was still
to do was
ell him r
preg
uld make him recon
that future would
only a second befor
ad already
outside those gates with z
hild as my final reas
ll hadn't ope
hile zombies were right behind me, what wa
ready knew the zombie
t was already over, I had far mor
o
te
ici
ure s
ap
absolutely s
laced my final hop
was why
the same stupi
and turned directly
visibl
xpected me to agree
give him the
marked, closed the folder, a
s si
there was something
already
itten on it exactly where it was, still
open a gate for me in the future, then there
, Damon finally called
vy
t turn
and cold wind rus
nt before placing my han
was stil
so w
reak that would turn the entire c
need to beg anyone t
ed, I was going to build a saf
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