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Nobody had common sense anymore. Hell, half of getting through life properly was having common sense and an iota of determination. It was a wonder that people without a thimbleful of either ever managed. Then again, there was such a thing as having too much of both. That had been one of her problems.

Stella pulled the covers over hr head and pretended to be dead, a ritual she'd been practicing since the early years of her childhood. Farm life had been hard.

For him there were no more reprieves and his hope had run out weeks before.