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You won't be able to hurt me, or touch me.
Lucy Christopher
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Lucy Christopher
Age: 54
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Had you been lying all along? Mum gently stroked my hair. I whispered into her shoulder. “I can’t go back. Not yet. I can’t leave.” And she held my head tight to her chest and wrapped her arms around me. “You don’t have to,” she said, rocking me. “You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do, not anymore.” And I cried.
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You're right, he's a killer, you said. A rooster with some serious issues.
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Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark.
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