Temperance
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There are moments within our lives that define us.
In this short story we witness some of these events in the life of eight year old Temperance Levinthal, when she is forced to face school yard bullies, town gossips and a mother, devastated by circumstance...
(This is a short story with the characters from Legend Unleashed, set many years before that adventure)
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