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Right Here in the Handbook (A Beetlejuice Short Story)

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Parts 9
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Reads 372
Votes 19
Parts 9
Time 40m

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It's been a couple of months since the day Adam and Barbara died from a fall through the floorboards of their own house. They have everything they could wish for, friends, family, a daughter (even if none of them were biologically related to them), but the one thing that they don't have control of just yet is their ghost powers.

Luckily, Betelgeuse is there to help them out.All Rights Reserved

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