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After a thorough search, she still could not find anything.“Calm down Lisa, think,” she said to herself. Think like someone who is trying to hide something.If you wanted to hide something, such that no one would find it, where would you keep it?Wait, I won’t keep it in my room because that’s the first place anyone would search if they were looking. It’s not here, how didn’t I figure this out earlier? I would keep it in a place where no one would even think.But this house isn’t big, it can’t be in my room, it’s not in hers as well. Where could it be Lisa, think.“Wait, who said it can’t be in my room? Bingo! That’s where it is. A mix of anxiety and excitement filled the atmosphere. For some reason, she felt like she was close to her goal. Looking keenly at the finest details, she realized the handle attached to a corner of the bed stand wasn’t just a fancy decoration, for some reason she had not seen it before.She approached it, and dragged it outwardly as though she was trying to
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