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They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her brow. 'That doesn't seem very nice. Everything belongs somewhere.
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but the sudden stark reality that things were never going to be the same again.
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It was the small things she took pleasure in. The faint hum of a huge furry bumble bee busily flitting from one flower to another, oblivious to the fact that it was completing a task on which the entire human race depended.
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dark red stain on the floor that couldn't be anything
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I'm just pulling up these weeds.' 'Why?' She thought about this for a second. 'Well, they don't belong here.' 'Oh. Where do they belong, then?' 'They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her brow. 'That doesn't seem very nice. Everything belongs somewhere.
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given a new name, chosen by the nuns, a more
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rubbed
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She pined for Rick and the brief but happy life they had once shared, before his drinking had ruined everything.
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Enough, you're testing my patience now, and I've not got time to stand around debating the issue.
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The little girl's eyes were squeezed tightly shut and she bore the angry expression unique to babies who had just been wrenched from the sanctuary of warmth and nourishment where they had spent the previous nine blissful months.
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As she voiced all this out loud for the first time, she found a long-buried inner strength, and with it a conviction that her sanity and indeed her very survival depended on her walking away.
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hoops on toast.
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we really thought you ought to know.
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as she breathed deeply, trying to lower her pulse rate. Rick
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want to spoil things. I think she
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that's what he said.
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Chrissie lowered her voice so that he struggled to
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He had the terrible feeling that he had just lost something very precious. Something he had never owned but that nevertheless should have belonged to him.
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All right there, mate?' Clark jumped and turned round. He straightened up and looked at Billy, recognition taking a few seconds. Billy's hair was shorter now, and his face was tanned. 'Christ, you startled me,' he said. 'What have you got there?' Clark held up the jar by a piece of tatty string. 'Sticklebacks!' For a moment his blue eyes shone with excitement, then they clouded over. He ran a wet hand through his red hair and swept it off h..
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time, Dan.
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Some people pursue happiness, others create it.
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blackbird. They reached the sandy area
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We'll
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