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Last published Sat, Jul 4, 2015
Imogene goes to school. Imogene goes to soccer practice and violin rehearsals and cooks dinner when she gets home. Imogene does her homework and goes to bed at a reasonable hour. Imogene goes to Absom - the place scientists have been trying to locate for nearly 300 years. Imogene meets a boy with purple hair and tackles him within the first five minutes of knowing him. Suddenly, he's become her whole world. Except, where is the real world and how did she get here?
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