Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.
("The Lovely Bones")
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She was in the downstairs bathroom sneaking bites from the macaroons my father's firm always sent us for Christmas. She ate them greedily they were like suns bursting open in her mouth.
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