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The Shadow of What Was Lost

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“But as the sun started to rise over the hills, they were off, on the wide-open road, heading for his home. The one he somehow needed to take this tight-assed woman to, along with her scrap of a mangy cat, the one with half an ear missing. 
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Book:A Real Man: The First Miracle
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