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"Who?" he asked starting toward me

"Your grandraphs we found out in the other roo up the notebook "is her diary She must have written it while she was down here"

"How can you be so sure she wrote it down here?" he asked

"From the very first sentence" I replied He waited and I looked back at the notebook and read

After Fletcher died, I told Ed that the only place I didn't hear the voices in our house was down in the baseht, but after a while, I could hear the whispering even in the daytime, so he fixed up the basement for me so I would have a safe place whenever I needed it He even put a little kitchen in for me

I paused and looked at Harley His lips were turned into his cheek, his eyes full of astonishment I looked back at the diary

He said "Come up whenever you want, Francine"

I smiled at him and shook my head He knew He knew very well

I'll never coain

Harley and I looked at each other Would it be the same for us?

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Grandmother's Diary

"Are you hungry?" Harley asked me

After what h the