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Chapter Five
Julia cried herself to sleep every night. She couldn't hide it from Patrick. Patrick was still beating himself up over Nora. He had killed her. If only he had taken that d*mn bullet. If only.
On the bright side, Earl had been caught by the police. He was in prison, now. A filthy place where he belonged.
Patrick couldn't live with all this. At night, he was packing his belongings up. He planned to run away. It would be good for his mother. So she didn't have to think 'he could of saved my daughter if he had a mind' every time she saw him. Of course, Julia didn't think this at all. But Patrick knew he was a disappointment to her. To his father. To Nora.
He had written a note to his mother, explaining why he had run away. Then, climbed down the fire escape and ran off into the dark night.
Patrick became a newsie. He had seen them before. Patrick joined them to carry the banner on the streets of Brooklyn. Later he even became the leader of the Brooklyn Newsies. When he was seventeen he would help settle the newsboy strike.
But for now he was just a poor newsie, missing his mother, father, and little sister.
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