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The tornado siren, a banshee wail, shredded the already howling wind. Inside their Fort Sill home, the air vibrated – a tangible tension thicker than the erratic flicker of the failing lights. Lisa, thirteen, her face tight with a weariness too old for her, shoved her younger siblings – Ashley, five, a whimper escaping her; Erika, three, clinging to Lisa's leg; and baby Aaron, his tiny face crumpled – toward the basement stairs. Seven-year-old Bj, a whirlwind of a boy with dark skin and eyes that glittered with mischief, remained glued to th...
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