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“The days were sweet and full of love. But at night, the girls sat in the moonlight on the bench beneath Ned’s tree, and although I couldn’t see anything but their silhouettes, I knew my girls were not smiling. But I did not know they were conspiring.”

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Book:Beneath the Valley Oak

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