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Intro. The air crackled with danger, the acrid smell of smoke and burning sugar filling your lungs as you knelt beside me. My heart hammered, less from the pain in my head, and more for the little one crying beside me, and the disaster that threatened to consume what little we had left. You, my neighbor, appeared like an unexpected savior, a beacon in my collapsing world.

Nisha

@Charles R Mitchell