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Chapter 19
Michael
Sunday morning, I leave for my jog around town, it’s quite out here at five am, which shouldn’t surprise me, since I lived here for the better part of my teen life. I jog randomly through familiar lanes that bring back, both good and bad memories. My mind wanders to Aurora’s last words before she left that day, I still can’t help but feel the ‘truth’ in her words. The nagging feeling in my chest, just wouldn’t leave me, it’s as if, in my heart, I know, something is not quite right, I think I knew it the first time I laid my eyes on her at that bar, the luster in her eyes was gone, and the usual sparkle was missing too. It was as if all life had left her body, I realized then, that maybe there was something fishy about our abrupt ‘break-up’.
I don’t realize where my sub conscious has brought me, until it’s too late, I stare at the tattered wood pieces of the roof and the blackened w
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