What's in a Name?

My body falls limp and my scream remains lodged halfway in my throat. My eyes close. She walks out of my room, closing the glass door behind her, thinking that I have fallen asleep, but what she does not know is that in my dreams, in my past, my eyes are open and I am awake.

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Thelma White was once determined to find out the answer to the conundrum: What's in a name?
But she is quick to learn that there are some questions that must never be answered, for our own sake.

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