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12 Minutes on Elm Street

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Thanksgiving's Dark Turn

This chapter recounts the harrowing Thanksgiving weekend of 2012 in Little Falls, Minnesota, where the joyful gathering of family takes a terrifying turn as two young adults go missing. As anxiety mounts, the family embarks on a frantic search, only to unveil a connection to a tragic home invasion involving a retired man named Byron Smith. The emotional aftermath reveals the complexities of grief, loss, and the moral dilemmas surrounding self-defense in the wake of sudden tragedy.

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