As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.
She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.
The Man of My Dreams
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She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.
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