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      <image:caption>He doesn’t stand, point a finger, and say, “Diving under the influence is a punishable offense.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Until that moment, Beth had felt sure she’d escaped her mothers manless, poverty tightrope existence.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Regret and relief sat side by side, their coexistence unbearable.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“She said a brief prayer to St. Christopher, who was known to protect travelers, and this journey up Mr. Marino’s slippery, sheer driveway certainly merited the saint’s intervention.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Across the creek, the soaring weeping willow’s dangling branches swayed in the breeze; its slender leaves whispered to us.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“She hadn’t been hurt, a detail the police, her mother, her sister had drawn to her attention. Repeatedly.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"You’ll wish he’d do something so terrible that you would have to leave him. He’ll do countless things not terrible enough. "</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“…clean, white wings opened and closed silently, like an owl’s.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Thomas and I hadn’t known where to begin when Deidre splintered into a slow spill she could neither contain nor quit.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Beside him—unleashed—stood a Mastiff, whose head rose past the man’s brass-studded belt.”</image:caption>
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