She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor.
So... Dell had been a good boy with bad friends. I knew this _ I used to be one of them. I__ always known Dell would disappear one day; he was too decent, too golden. This place never tainted that, and I don__ know why. He made me feel dirty. Dark and corrupt. It hadn__ always that way, and I don__ know when it changed... but I felt it now. I only knew I couldn__ hold onto him tight enough to stop those long legs carrying him away somewhere better. A day__l come when everybody__ had you and nobody wants you anymore... As Dell drove Erin away in their rent-a-car from the Holiday Inn into the early evening traffic, I felt the walls closing in, the world swelling around me, and I knew that day had finally come. Tomorrow, I leave Paradise. It__ true. Shanise was right.I turned away as the car disappeared up the slushy street. That was the last time I saw them alive.
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So... Dell had been a good boy with bad friends. I knew this _ I used to be one of them. I__ always known Dell would disappear one day; he was too decent, too golden. This place never tainted that, and I don__ know why. He made me feel dirty. Dark and corrupt. It hadn__ always that way, and I don__ know when it changed... but I felt it now. I only knew I couldn__ hold onto him tight enough to stop those long legs carrying him away somewhere better. A day__l come when everybody__ had you and nobody wants you anymore... As Dell drove Erin away in their rent-a-car from the Holiday Inn into the early evening traffic, I felt the walls closing in, the world swelling around me, and I knew that day had finally come. Tomorrow, I leave Paradise. It__ true. Shanise was right.I turned away as the car disappeared up the slushy street. That was the last time I saw them alive.
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