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He found Taylor sitting on a loall Derry is the only re completely intact walled city in Ireland and one of the finest examples of a walled city in Europe The walls are completely intact and for at her for a ainst the wall The sun shone down on her,her hair shine Her knees were pulled up to her chest and her book was propped up against her legs She was engrossed in her story and did not notice the gentle breeze playing with her hair

He pulled his ring froer and when she perceived a movement in front of her, she looked up He stepped toward her and then sat down next to her

When his arainst hers, she squirh he stopped her fro in front of the bread delivery truck earlier, she did not expect hi for her

He asked softly "I recognized your bracelet It's a Cancer awareness bracelet, isn't it?"

She glanced down at the plastic armband around her wrist She did not knohat to say

He looked out across the wall to view the layout of the original tohich still preserved its Renaissance style street plan

She started to stand up "I better get home"

He wanted to put his hand on her forearo because ofvery forward Usually, people tended to shy away from the subject of cancer She looked back at him bothered

He smiled friendly He did not look like a kidnapper or a serial killer, and he did save her life, so she sat back down again She had not spoken to another person, besides her mother and Dr Dunne, for what seemed like forever Maybe she could sit here for a while and talk with hiet her mind off Monday As soon as she told him every detail, he would definitely leave her alone People always did

She sighed softly, letting the air blow over her botto was not quite right was a constant pain in my back and neck No matter how many pain pills I drank, the pain never really went away The pain started when I was fifteen, and we thought it was stress or soo to school, coo back to bed Then, I noticed es would flicker when I looked too far to the left or the right" She laughed softly "It was very weird and scary all at the sa I woke up and the entire left side of my body was nu Every ti First they thought it was oes on and on At one stage, they even thought it could be MS Eventually, when my doctor ran out of ideas of why I had the constant pain, dizziness, nuo to school, he sent nosed" Embarrassed she looked at him "Does that satisfy your morbid curiosity?"