Shirts and jeans litter the asphalt, the empty fabric limbs askew as if they're attempting to escape. Blood smears Sarah's lips as she struggles against the chest of a dirty looking man with a beard. Terror. Terror is the only word my mind can seize on and it forgets what it means. I forget how to think - to move.
Me? I was lost for long time. I didn__ make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school [_]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. [_]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first.
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Me? I was lost for long time. I didn__ make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school [_]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. [_]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first.
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