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Thirty Six: Home Alone
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Claire had left the fridge filled with ready to microwaved packets of food, milk, bread, cereals, eggs, and the stock cabinet with enough canned food for the apocalypse. She had left the list of important numbers to call, she re-stocked the first aid kit box with medicine, bandages like a mini-hospital storage room.
She left some money, her credit card number in case Hazel run out of food and wanted to order takeaway. She left her with a five-page rule of what to do and not to do while they were gone.
"No boys," Claire repeated it at least a dozen times before she left.
"But Lee ..."
"No boys, I don't care if it's Lee," Claire said.
"Or Theo," Max jumped in
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