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Six: A Fresh Start.

Author: Sammie Lewis
last update Last Updated: 2023-09-27 03:19:20

ELIANA.

SIX YEARS LATER.

My eyes settled on the untamed flames of the bonfire and even with the warmth that emitted from it, it was still a cold night in the mountains of Tuscany, where I’d stayed for the last six years.

There was a rumble in the skies above me, preceded by a bolt of lightning that struck the earth. The breeze was cold against my skin, grazing through my hair which swayed left and right.

I folded my arms with a jacket over my shoulders. Until the rain started to pour, I wouldn’t go back into my tent, I resolved in my head. It had rained heavily here each night for the past week. And although it was hard to believe the Tuscany mountains were a real place, they really were.

I had to see for myself when I stumbled here one random day six years ago after journeying halfway across the earth in search of a home. There wasn’t one quite as welcoming as here. But the weather said otherwise.

Of course, I had found ways to cope but still, on some days when the harsh winds wou
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Lori Fleming
why would she go to a tribe who enslaved her and a father who allowed it. how did her grandmother call her? maybe the writer should have had her gmother connect with her by telecommunication, etc. She might return for her gmother, but would she risk taking her son to that horrible environment.
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Dianna Bernard
If she left Oakland 6 years ago, and her grandmother was locked up how could the grandmother possibly have her cell phone number? This part of the story is unrealistic. The author needs to put in a plot where that is concerned, since her grandmother knowing her cellphone number is not possible.
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Sybil Clarke
the father who made her a slave? why would she care if he's deathly ill?
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