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What were they talking about?
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"Okay," I said "Let me know if I can help"
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Rogan opened his laptop and clicked a file An ie of my mother filled the screen She lay on the carpeted floor in so at a small perfectly circular hole in theLeon lay next to her The Harcourt building loomed in the distance
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Leon laughed quietly under his breath
"Did she hit the target?" I asked
"The best we can figure out," Rivera said, "the bullet struck soree turn, and took out the shooter at the other side Leon can literally shoot around corners The kid is ic"
"Two bravo, six o’clock," Leon said "A little to the left"
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