The Taking

him. I have a story I want to tell her, and if anything happens to me before she's old enough to hear it, I want the story written down for her to read."
        "Sounds important," Neil said.
        "Oh, it is."
        "What's it about?"
        She put her head upon his shoulder, and with her face against his throat, she whispered, "Hope."

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