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What was this bloodthirsty, feral beast Jill saw hunting naked in the moonlight? How could she become a thing like that? Could she still be saved?

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Sadie entered that closet with Jeff, and Jeff left the closet without her. For two whole weeks, she was simply gone. No one, Sadie included, knew where she might have been

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None of us really thought we were going to find Sadie.

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You can pretend something never happened, but the fallout sinks into your bones and never goes away. Some things are just that bad. What happened to Sadie that night in the late summer of 1993 was one of those things.

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Are you a fan of true crime?

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He wasn’t going to let me go free, I was certain of that.

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He said he looked up to where Jason was pointing and babbling, and saw what he could only describe as a U.F.O.

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Once I was alone watching TV and the door behind me closed AND locked.

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I don’t know what the future holds for me, but my past is clearer than it’s ever been.

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1. I stopped at a red light and saw an attractive young man jamming out to “Stairway to Heaven,” in a Chevy truck next to me, but as soon as I looked at him, he flashed his blinding white teeth at me as his eyes started oozing out tar and smoke billowed from his nostrils – then the light turned green, but when I pressed on the gas as hard as I could, the engine began to sputter.