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Hammering Heartbeats
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2020-12-18 09:37:21By the time we got back to Whispering Hollow, it was almost midnight. I needed to get home. I knew that. But I wasn’t in a rush to get there. The excitement from the fight in the parking lot had worn off, leaving me a little bit tired and little anxious. It didn't seem to be effecting Ben at all, despite the fact that he was the one who had done all of the fighting.
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