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Chapter 8
Yes, you just got promoted in hell.
......
"Ring-a-ring-a-roses,
A pocket full of posies;
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down.
......
Ring a ring a Rosie,
A bottle full of posie,
All the girls in our town,
Ring for little Jodie."
I was awaken by a voice of a singing little girl. I pried my eyes open and saw two little brown gems looking at me with such amusement.
I smiled at her and she smiled back in return. What is she doing here? She must be only a hallucination, how could there be a little angel in the hell kind of place. Maybe, I was about to die and she was to take me with her? But that would be insane. If there were such thing as heaven and hell, m
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