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Lucas had told me only one lie, ever he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn’t his secret to tell. In every other way, he’d been honest with me and shared the hard truths nobody else thought I deserved to hear.

Claudia Gray

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Claudia Gray
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 12
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