The Angel Who Burned: A Small Town's Inferno

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looked at

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ed, older, his face grim

cuffing Sarah, roug

here, watching it burn,

her valedictorian dress, now

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on room, the fluor

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you like their own daughter. The whole tow

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left, m

osite Sarah. He place

to State University. Teachers say you' re a ray o

ard, his voice

re an angel, Sarah. T

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