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Chapter 55 - Pain fixes that

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Gianna | Age 5 | Toricelli Estate, Chester County, PA

The room was very big and very quiet, except for the sound of the clock on the wall. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.

I sat in Daddy’s big leather chair. It was so huge that I felt like a little bug lost. The room smelled like the spicy brown water Daddy drinks. In front of me was a book with a lot of tiny black marks on the pages.

"Again, Gianna," Daddy said, "Focus, my little Donna," he stood behind me, and his big hands felt warm on my shou
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moniegirl_99
But Hazel’s second husband, Jules father, was a senator. So she couldn’t have faked their death married to a public figure. But I wonder if G’s father killed the senator…
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How in the world did Hazel and G escape from him???
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moniegirl_99
Her father is a monster! G equates the pain she endured to her father’s love. And now we see why she uses all these forms of self harm to focus. Poor thing…
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