Can you keep it?
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After being tossed around from foster home to foster home for the past 18 years of her life, Chaplin has had enough. Her mother died while giving birth to her, and her father fled the hospital before life support turned off. Now that she's old enough to be alone, Chaplin is out to find her father, the CIA operative that gave her a letter to open on her 18th birthday, February 15th. The envelope said that if she opened it before time, she was in grave danger, and anyone who saw it was. It needed to remain hidden until February 15th, 2013, it was the only thing Chaplin had to remind her of the past, the only thing that stayed for 18 years. But now, time is running up..
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