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The heat was oppressive, not in the way she’d long ago accepted most southern summers were, but in a way that made her feel like she was caught in a Hitchcock movie. Cleaning the last of the blood off her boning knife from tonight’s meal, the last meal of the summer, it was finally time for Lola to close-up. She wiped the knife down with the edge of her pink apron and walked out into the night air. It felt like God breathing into her lungs after nine hours spent trapped without an air conditioner. &n...
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