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. Why that look,

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the story," she said, and I

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d died and left me an empire. It is the pain that mak

on't you

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ied it on yourself a cou

the only way I can cont

in the sink and left them there. I leaned against the cabinet and thought if bringing her to the old house was a good idea. I

darting everywhere. To the corners, possibly won

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paces away. "I ha

for her t

doing. The revenge stuff. How a

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better than me while we were still together, and that is why he rejec

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ck," she

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the most. Seeing people crying for something other people did to them. It was

tears fall. I stood there watching her until she got a hol

she said. "That

have to cry,

yeah, I

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