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38-Dreams And Fate
"I'm sorry Charity, I won't be going to the victim's home today. Something came up. We'll go some other time"
I think the phrase, shattering of heart is a bit too underrated and considered too literal, used in literary works and in certain kind of situations to prove how pleasant our grasp of good grammar is cause I can testify that my heart practically broke into a million pieces that all the glue in the world wouldn’t even dare put together if they tried as I read through Detective Roman's message that morning.
Christ I waited! Eagerly at that.
Heck ! I even dreamt of it all night. In my dreams, I saw myself sitting behind my big sandalwood table glazed and shiny with the best of the newest computing inventions in front of me while I type away on my keyboard in a big office, yeah you got it right! Not that tiny cubicle that leaves your legs cramped after a long day of sitting inside of it. My very own
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