11. "And just stared, unmoved, as though watching a world in which she was no longer an inhabitant."
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12. "Lily lay back in Jake's arms looking at the timbered roof overhead, planks and beams smooth and worn, antiqued by a century of summers."
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Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa
13. "Both possessing remarkably rich southern drawls, words loitered on their tongues like drunken drifters when they spoke."
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14. "She had stumbled across a ghost, and her touch had conjured the apparition."
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15. "Her sweat was a potion, her scent elixir."
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16. "Once again, Jake held Lily's hand tight as they made their way across the creek, loud and swollen, the morning mist rising over it like a ghost."
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