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Weekly Contest #358
The Oleander Surprise Nobody believed in me. That was their first mistake. Their second mistake was not to believe my words, to take my threat as a joke. I couldn’t be serious, right? No way would I murder my husband. Not Becky Graham, goody two-shoes, daughter of a Church of the Nazarene preacher. Baptized at ten, sanctified at sixteen, safely married at eighteen, mother of twin girls at twenty-two. What they didn’t know, what they couldn’t see, was the fear I lived through daily. Living with Jim was like walking a t...
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