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Bruises and dried blood covered her face, giving the illusion of chicken pox.Yawatta Hosby
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Birds chirped and hawked in the distance. A group of them, maybe vultures, circled the sky. Rae glanced at the blanket. Those damn birds could probably smell Marissa, and the second everyone left, they'd pounce on her.Yawatta Hosby
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Yeah, there has to be a few screws loose when a girl asks you to drop everything to spend a three-day weekend on very short notice, and you say okey dokey without a care in the world.Yawatta Hosby
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Just one pit stop, Rae. One pit stop that won't even take an hour. Then it's over. It's finally over.Yawatta Hosby
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Really? We always have a choice, do we? What about the choices that other people make that end up completely changing your life, not theirs? Where is our choice there, then?Chris Carter