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CHAPTER 63: THE SCAR CONVERSATION

작가: Kathy L. Senior
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LENA

The kitchen was dark when I came downstairs.

Not entirely, the under-cabinet lights were on, the small ambient glow I had learned was left on by habit or preference or some arrangement with the household that predated me, the specific consideration of a house that did not want to be entirely dark for the people who moved through it at hours that were not meant for moving. I had been awake since three-seventeen. I knew this because I had looked at my phone at three-seventeen and had then pu
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