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Griselda's Story About the Robbers

Griselda was cremated without a service. The daughters gave me one of the lesser pacasso prints and said i could stay in the cottage rent free until the place was sold. I found a job as an administrative assistant at stamford, basic, a receptionist with excellent health care. A year into my quiet life alone in the cottage, i felt a disturbance in the air in front of my desk at work and looked up, and that woman was my mother. She wore a floral dress i had never seen before and was cupping her hands to her mouth. My mother said, i've found you. It turned out that underneath the furniture, the roots of the bamboo thick

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