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Her breath exited her mouth in big puffs as if she were smoking a cigarette. The morning dew had made her clothes damp and she shivered from the chill in the air. There was only one thing that could get her up and out this early in the morning. The paper was blank. It shouldn’t have been. There should have been writing on the paper, at least a paragraph if not more.