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Arleen thanked Pana. Getting off the phone, she thanked Jesus. She smiled. When she smiled she looked like a different person. The press had loosened its grip. From landlords, she had heard eighty-nine nos but one yes. Jori accepted his mother’s high five. He and his brother would have to switch schools. Jori didn’t care. He switched schools all the time. Between seventh and eighth grades, he had attended five different schools — when he went at all. At the domestic-violence shelter alone, Jori had racked up seventeen consecutive absences. Arleen saw school as a higher-order need, something to worry about after she found a house.
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Unscramble MATTHEW7-letter words that start with M7-letter words that end in W7-letter words containing AT7-letter words containing EW7-letter words with M and A
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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The old plural of Eye.
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AND STILL ___
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