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Day Forty-Five

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Chapter 20

“We need the hospital,” said Goldie.

It was the morning after the funeral, and nobody had slept. We sat around the long kitchen table with cold tea and the radio switched off. Goldie’s hands were wrapped around her mug so tightly that her knuckles were white.

“Tobias said the sickness began at the harbor shelter. I need to know what it is.” She looked around the table. “Harbor General has a lab. It has a pharmacy in the basement, and it has records. If there is any answer in this c
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