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Chapter 72 The School Gate

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Yesterday afternoon, Lily sat still at the kitchen table for an hour. She did not open her blue notebook. She did not pick up her pencil. She simply stared blankly at the wood.

That was exactly how Aurora knew something was wrong.

The next afternoon, Aurora stood at the Cedar Falls school gate. The autumn air was crisp. She waited on the concrete sidewalk as the loud dismissal bell rang. Children flooded out.

Lily walked slowly toward the heavy chain-link gates. She kept her head down.

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