Part 20: crossroad

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The girl thought about the boy's mom a lot over the next week. She thought about asking him, about telling him of the library incident, about his mom not remembering her face. But against her better judgement, she didn't.

This was the first time the girl kept something important from the boy, and she wondered if it would or wouldn't be the last.

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