24 - Funeral

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My stepfather guides me along the aisles of the church where all the mourners stand with their heads bowed down as they hold something shiny in their palms as though deep in prayer.

As my stepfather and I approach the opened coffin to pay our last respects, I find the coffin empty so I turn to my stepfather for an explanation but he pins me to the floor as the mourners surrounds us and that is when I find out that the shiny things were knives.

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