What We Stay Alive For
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"Do we get second chances in this life, Todd?" Neil asks him like he expects a negative answer. Todd doesn't give that to him.
"Yes. We do. I know it."
"Do you?" Neil grins, playfully elbowing him. "Did you at least wait to take it? That second chance? Until the world was more peaceful? More kind?"
Ten years after the death of Neil Perry, Todd Anderson wakes up with a second chance.
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