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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"strongspan style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"Hello everyone! So, if you follow me on Tumblr then you would know that I have actually combined both chapter's 1 and 2 to make it one big chapter instead of two separate short pieces! I have now found time's that I can post weekly for this story! I know that this chapter sucks because of my writing skills, but I am learning to improve with my dialogue and diction as we speak 3 /span/span/strong/p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"strongspan style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"Hello everyone! So, if you follow me on Tumblr then you would know that I have actually combined both chapter's 1 and 2 to make it one big chapter instead of two separate short pieces! I have now found time's that I can post weekly for this story! I know that this chapter sucks because of my writing skills, but I am learning to improve with my dialogue and diction as we speak 3 /span/span/strong/p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"strongspan style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"IMPORTANT:/spanspan style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" Please leave reviews! It is important for me to be informed by you viewers if the material is worsening throughout the chapters. I would like to be notified if each chapter is good or slacking! It will help me in the future to spend time on working for the better! Thank you all so much :D/span/span/strong/p
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