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Although I hadn't done any trickery in years, I knehat to do I'd pulled off plenty of more co could go wrong-I'd been taught that since I got out of diapers So towent smoothly, I made use of every trick I knew I had dressed old blazer I had pulled my baseball cap do so the visor would hide my eyes from the surveillance cameras The cap also covered my spiky bleached hair so I'd look more normal I was ready to pretend

On the other side of the , a lonesoh the basic steps of preparing hi hiood about hie irl-from-back-home innocence The officer looked up at , especially when I smile My set no coht the quick scan of his eyes as he took htly, and his eyes widened Yes-his churning brain was telling hiood start

I then used a helpless-girl routine tofor the lost and found" An easy request, considering I was already there

The officer was happy to assist "You found it, babe What'ja lose?" His crooked grin assuredtoo many questions

Next, I added a layer of sadness to et ht have been an excessive level of et out of here So I dredged up soht about a hungry little five-year-old girl Her fostera con and hadn't been seen in days The only food in the house was a partial bag of potato chips and a nearly eirl went outside and cli with a stale loaf of bread and a half-full jar of mayonnaise But that didn't last, either, so her older brother broke into mother's precious chocolate bars and handed thery," she warned him, but he insisted it was okay So she ate the chocolate, then hid under the covers of her bed, less hungry but more afraid of ould happen when mother returned