JOHN CONNOLLY

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It was Dr.Al-Daini who found the girl, abandoned in the long central corridor. She was beneath broken glass and shards of pottery, under discarded clothing, pieces of furniture, and old newspapers used as packing materials. She should have been rendered almost invisible amid the dust and the darkness, but dr.al-daini had spent decades searching for girls such as she, and he picked her out where others might simply have passed over her.