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Good morning MS Khadija.
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This is my book report on the astonishing color of
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after part.
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Want to touch you.
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Good. Er I'll never be able to erase that image.
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His hands slick and shaking maroon smeared across his temple,
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chest heaving like he was iron feeling.
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Getting sucked into his lungs and notch here.
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At first I thought he was injured.
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Lay your mother.
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He choked on the sentence face puckering into something awful.
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When he finally got the words out, his voice crawled
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into an ocean to get me.
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He was a cold room and found far away and
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garbled. Couldn't process what he said.
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Not for a long time.
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Not when the police are not even when the people
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came to carry out my mother's body out the front
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door. It happened on the astonishing color of after a
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paranormal fishing by Emily X.
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R. Penn Court to drew introduction.
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The astonishing color of after is a paranormal fiction about
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identity and family grief.
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It's about a girl named Les who was looking for
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a mom who's a bird.
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And in the process of doing so something absolutely crazy
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happens. They'll blow your mind.
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I didn't cry.
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That was not my mother.
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My mother is a tree in the sky.
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My mother is free in the sky.
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She doesn't have the burden of a human body is
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not made up of a single dot of great.
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My mother is a bird body.
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A girl named lee is on a search for her
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mother and while doing so she struggles to figure out
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her identity.
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After an event that happened to her mother.
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She moved to Taiwan and has a hard time fitting
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in well it was growing up in America.
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She never spoke Taiwanese which made her feel like she
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didn't belong.
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And felt like she didn't know who she was.
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She had no one to look up to because she
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kissed her best friend axel.
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She didn't feel like he was the best person to
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talk to after what happened.
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She starts on she starts in these journeys to look
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for her mother in the city.
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She grew up in Mind you her her mother was
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a bird and has hallucinations after It was a very
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critical day.
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The 49th Day, a very, very special holiday in Taiwan
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after his mother.
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I don't on that day, which when the dead came
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back in the form of something else.
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This is what caused Late to look everywhere for her
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mother. Mm hmm.
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Astonishing color of After is a wonderful book for people
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who love the grief filled paranormal activity genre.
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The book contains tons of magical components that leave you
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wanting to turn the page every time, literally a page
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turner. The whole book is like a parallel universe, creating
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images in your head.
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It feels a dream