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h3 id="work" class="landmark heading" style="border-width: 0px 0px 0.25em; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; font-weight: 500; font-style: inherit; font-size: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 0; word-break: break-word; opacity: 0; height: 0px; clear: both; color: transparent; box-shadow: none; border-color: initial initial #333333 initial; border-style: initial initial double initial;"Chapter Text/h3
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h3 class="title" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.286em; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0.5375em 0px; padding: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1; word-break: break-word; background: transparent; text-align: center; box-shadow: none;"a style="color: #666666; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17.1469px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-shadow: none;" href=" /works/31032419/chapters/115132378"Chapter 12/a: In sensu doloris/h3
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h3 id="work" class="landmark heading" style="border-width: 0px 0px 0.25em; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; font-weight: 500; font-style: inherit; font-size: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 0; word-break: break-word; opacity: 0; height: 0px; clear: both; color: transparent; box-shadow: none; border-color: initial initial #333333 initial; border-style: initial initial double initial;"Chapter Text/h3
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13.7592px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; box-shadow: none;""You're a smart girl," Alexa stated, "but not smart enough."/p
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