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normal"This is a one shot that may end up being as series of one shots. I own nothing of the Characters of "Sherlock" just my own creation. Text messages will be in bold. This story is set six months after Sherlock returned from his death and does not follow season three./em/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times"Sherlock, where are you? JW/span/strong/p
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p class="MsoNormal"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times"Lilly, where are you?/span/strong/p
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p class="MsoNormal"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times"John, I am with Mycroft. I will be home in an hour. Lilly/span/strong/p
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p class="MsoNormal"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times"Sherlock, I will bring dinner see you at 7. JW/span/strong/p
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p class="MsoNormal"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times"Lilly, I will get dinner see you at 7. JW/span/strong/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:
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p class="MsoNormal"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times"Mycroft, bring the file John needs to know what happened to Lilly. SH/span/strong/p
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p class="MsoNormal"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times"NOW Mycroft. SH/span/strong/p
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