The Nightmares Come While I'm Awake

I know you’re not dead and that you’ll wake up. God is with you.
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Make me look like you. I know you can. Exactly the same or just as pretty. Even if I have to die the way you did for it to be possible. I’ll pay it forward, like I hope you will for me.
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Are you my little girl? I can’t help but think she’d look like you if she’d grown up. I’m sorry. I should have been more careful. It was an accident, and I’ll always be sorry. It’s what made me be so good to the two boys who came after.
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Everyone here thinks you are so perfect, but why were you here and naked at that hour? They’ll see soon enough what you are.
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I bought this ring for you. Two months salary. I know it’ll find its way to you if I leave it wrapped in this note.