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"I'm taking my break. I'll be in the back."

Kathleen's brother nodded, and Kathleen made her way to the staffroom at the back of his hardware store.

A while later she heard the door open behind her. She turned to talk to her brother.

It wasn't her brother standing in the doorway of the hardware store's staffroom.

Kathleen Ryburg saw stars.

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