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Ollie's Big Secret, Part 2
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Ollie's Big Secret, Part 2
I’m not sure how long I lay there crying, but it was a while before I finally wiped the tears from my eyes. And when I finally found the strength to sit, I discovered that the bear was gone.
Tracks of overturned dirt and grass set a straight path from where the bear had lain stretched out to the safety of the trees to our right.
“It must have escaped,” I guessed, my voice hoarse.
As for Ollie, well, I could see his jeans behind the clearing’s lone tree. He’d gone barefoot, and I wasn’t sure, but it did seem like the hairs that had covered the skin of his foot were gone now.
Still, that wasn’t e
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