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It hit her. Her family wasn't her family. Her father wasn't her father. Her mother wasn't her mother. She wasn't their daughter. They were strangers to her. They lied. They. Lied. To. Her. She slightly blamed herself - she could have stayed completely oblivious to this pain, this pain that they lied to her about this, if only she hadn't disobeyed her parent's wishes, had she not went up into the old attic, had she opened up that box - none of this would have happened. She could not go up there...
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His baby blue eyes flashed with horror before the knife plunged into his chest. His eyes rolled to the back of his head, and he was gone. Pools of blood swam around his body. I felt shocked. My breathing quickened. Tears trickled down my face. My face, hands, my entire body drained of colour. I was frantic. The entire world was spinning around me. I had just seen a murder, and I just had to get away.So I ran. I ran to my car, got inside, turned it on, and just drove home. IT made me run.As I parked my car in the driveway, my hands were ...
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