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The last time she was seen, Caroline was headed across the bridge in a snowstorm, carrying a dark blue umbrella.
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It all began the day that the three strange figures approached the farm.
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Their parents were wondering why they hadn't made it home from school yet.
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Then he took the pen in hand, and this is what he wrote.
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Seeing the boat, he suddenly knew two things--first, that there was a way off this strange island, and second, that he was no longer alone.
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Slowly, methodically, she isolated the virus.
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There, in the high meadow where he had ridden his horse every summer, it rose from the wood.
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