Suddenly, she heard a loud bang, a thump and a scream that caused her to jump from the bed. The hair on the back of her neck stood straight up and her body became one big goosebump.
He was a nobody. Yet and still, he held the gun and therfore all of the power.
The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016
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He was a nobody. Yet and still, he held the gun and therfore all of the power.
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