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/twenty-one
lalisa

  his house was dead quiet.
  i used the spare key he once gave me to get in but he weren't in sight. his body wasn't on his bed like it supposed to. instead, there was only the book. the book he loved so much for me to read to him. the book called the giver.

  but i had placed it on his nightstand.
  he had never touched it while i'm gone.

  my thoughts were spiraling inside so hard, that it made me want to vomit.
  but i didn't.
  i reached for the book and checked on the bookmark.

  it wasn't on the last page that i read him.

  we hadn't come to this part yet.
we hadn't come to the part where jonas leave his community to go to a better place. and ironically, there was a mark that i had never put on the page. the mark looked like as if someone circled the phrase 'a better place' with a pen.

  oh, no.

  no.. please, god, no

  don't!

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