An Acceptable Loss
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Last published Tue, May 12, 2020
Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands. Sometimes blind faith doesn't cut it.
It's been months. The dust has settled. Dara has returned to her normal life. But now it seems like someone is on to them.
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An Acceptable Loss is a work of fiction. While this story may reference real historical events and real places, all intended relation to our world stops there. There will be made up places and made up facts. Any similarity that these things bear to real people or places is entirely coincidental.
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I had so much left, to say
sometimes the people we expect to stay with forever, and to trust, leave us... why? Is something she'll always ask herself. It is something that still haunts her. She wants to know if he wanted to teach her something, or if he wanted to hurt her, she wants to know what was going through his mind when he left. She'll get her answer now that she's back in town but it's not what she expected.
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