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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
Author
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Amy Vincent
Hard
Hear
Truths
Every
Secret
Cross
Way
Lying
Crosses
Black
Kept
Tell
Nobody
Else
Told
Lucas
Thought
Wasn
Deserved
Ever
Honest
Shared

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