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f it. Lost in words, I bar

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g completely that she was t

lright,"

like that.

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most beautiful gho

her, but she disapp

off. But I couldn't shake the inc

e lingered. It felt like a dream. A par

my boss

in thought, I

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out of it.

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r... just tir

are the files for

sir," I

wanted it so badly-but somewhere alon

g about her kept

-

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, I dove into the fil

ile case. Th

be unlucky-to be ch

office a month ago, right next to a be

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stressed.

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ied, walking into his father'

here w

e was found covered in b

in the chest. On

nds-amp

t a murder. It

es. But the detail that ca

umb had been

deliberate

o find th

sed this horror, her thought c

oice. I wished I'd

ad to fo

uld lead her bac

-

he office

boss said I could ta

auma eating away at me. The

eded

gone. I lived alo

ne of the dirtiest

s a cab driver. At least

I walked home. Olkhom was

enly-

r spe

aming, "Help! Help! My da

psed to t

shed

er them," he begge

ed me. I had t

run. Or f

larms were triggered. The police were alerted and

I was a cop to

e suspects to th

e and hugged my leg. Her father, in his

ked in me when

he only thing that could b

me kids. Maybe then I

aughter tightly, whisp

othing,"

ant everyt

-

. I caught a cab

er, the ghost lady, the child

I knew it had to be

oor, I f

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My landlord

est day-I wouldn't

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temperature didn

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got out, washed

ugh the files again..

eded

dreams, I'd meet t