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bread on the shelves. Sometimes she would call my name

noon, the bake

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as cr

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been standing in the corrid

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d tell her the bakery wil

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for putting me i

was that he might b

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andma Linda's bed while she

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go to the hospital

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is more important th

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if you had to choose between someone you lo

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force you to make a

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refully about what you

but tears slippe

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you have to sacrifice your entire future to

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lldozers arriving, the bakery being torn down,

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d me to be his girlfriend, happiness fel

ME

received a mess

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message

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screen until t

my conversatio

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hatever happens with the bak

my lips, remembering our ki

ed Da

at the thought of hurt

my childhood, and the bakery was t

a reply

I promise I'll exp

him about Do

st cal

other, their family turning against each o

ge I had begun writing

ing, I would

was only going t

I would never

darkness, one frightenin

ever known meant breaking the hea

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