C42 EPILOGUE

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"Mom? Can you tell me that story again?"

Candice smiled as she tucked her in the bed "Why do you want to hear it, baby girl?" she asked. She looked at me and smiled, showing her incomplete set of teeth.

"Because it's my favorite story, ever!" she giggled. "Please, I want to hear it before I go to sleep," the young girl pleaded with her puppy eyes. Candice sighed and sat beside her