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A steel door clapped open as a guard stepped from the bulletproof viewing station across the hall. "Adams! " "That you?" "I told you, I don't know-" The cop pointed straight at him. "Jeffrey Adams! Front and center! " The black man helped him rise to his feet. "Ain't everybody gets called back from the pit, man. Question is, what are you gonna do when you find out who you are?Davis Bunn
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Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions.Davis Bunn
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God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.Davis Bunn
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Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".Davis Bunn
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Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.Davis Bunn
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For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.Davis Bunn
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I was thinking..."" We know, " Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cookerDavis Bunn
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I have a hundred reasons to dislike this gentleman, ” Erica reminded herself aloud. “And a thousand reasons more not to go courting with any man.” Lavinia laughed at that. “Whenever has a woman’s heart listened to her head?Davis Bunn
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His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.Davis Bunn
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He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.Davis Bunn
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It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.Davis Bunn
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Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.Davis Bunn
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Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.Davis Bunn
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The afternoon's glory was tainted by the voice on the other end. "I was so very sorry not to have the pleasure of meeting you, Mr. Haines. You're not living up to your part of the bargain.Davis Bunn
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The distance had been evaporated by humorDavis Bunn