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All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.

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Kim Edwards
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 4
Author
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Killeen
Texas
Already
Afternoon
Worst
Surely
Eyes
North
Happened
Believed
Future
East
Eye
Absolutely
Caroline
Left
Behinds
Sunny
World
Behind
Traveling

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