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Grace Suthrland

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Adam's Parcel

"Do you remember that summer, Adam?" asked Madelyn. "You tried to kiss me to make Roderick jealous. It worked; straight afterwards he proposed." Adam didn't say anything. He didn't even look her way. His eyes were drawn to the slip of a girl waiting by the bus stop in the pouring rain. He could see her perfectly from the window-desk where he sat. The girl had no umbrella, no raincoat. No shoes even. She wore only a plain house dress with faint floral patterns. In her small, fair hands she held a parcel wrapped in brown paper packaging. Her...

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