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IN MY DAUGHTERS NAME

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  The hooded figure killed off the car lights and its engine while squinting in the dark, struggling to see what was in front ahead. With their trembling hand held on the gear firmly in neutral, the figure let the car continue to slowly roll down the hill in silence.  Now the car wasn’t making any sound and there was no light to draw any attention from the distance so the figure was free to work uninterrupted but who would hear a car in that thick of the night and so far from the city? “One cannot be too careful,” the figure thought. The voices the figure heard was the wind whispering things the figure was uninterested in.  Finally getting to the destination at the foot of the hill, the figure pressed the brakes and brought the car to a complete stop then as an after-thought, the figure started the car and reversed the car to make it face the direction it was coming from... ready to go. Although it was very dark and it was hard to see anything, the figure peeped out of the window to sc