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Chapter 15 ***** The Arlington Heights Hospital had been filled with patients being treated for pneumonia, and Josiah, as an RN, was checking for ...
Chapter 14 **** After school, the three Burton children came home, and each started working on their homework each in their rooms- Samuel and Aneu...
Chapter 13 **** Lincoln Middle School’s hallway was bustling with students shuffling to first period when Mary looked at her geometry homework—the...
Chapter 12 *** Donna attended the women’s Bible study at Jackie’s house with Irene, Mrs. Marshall, Mrs. Moise, Mrs. Thompson, Dawn, and Amaya. I...
Chapter 11 ***** As the three Burton children went to work on their respective assignments, Carl had come home from work at Global Weekly Chicago ...
Chapter 10****Carl stepped into the Global Weekly office, and clocked in for his morning shift. He then approached a woman named Verna Zee, Lucinda’s ...
Chapter 9 **** The next morning, the three kids got up out of bed, and each made themselves a bowl of cereal—Mary poured herself some Cheetah Chom...
Chapter 8 **** Oliver drove from church back to Chicago to meet his roommate at a diner off Interstate 90. He drove past boarded-up storefronts, t...
Chapter 7 New Hope Village Church, even now with the digital age, streamed the services online, and posted sermon notes afterwards as PDFs for those...
Chapter 6 **** "Can you believe Russia attacked Israel?", asked a doctor at a hospital at Arlington Heights to one of his colleagues. "My people...
Chapter 5 ***** Now if you are familiar with flashbacks in storytelling, you'll know they're those windows into the past that writers use to let y...
Chapter 4 ***** Lucille Moise grew up in Mount Prospect until she graduated from Prospect High School. She began attending the University of South...
Chapter 3 **** Josiah Eliraz had been raised in a Pakistani-Jewish family in Mount Prospect before going to nursing school in Chicago. The Eliraze...
Chapter 2 *** Robert Burton lived in Mount Prospect until he graduated from High School. He had dark hair and was tall. He was the oldest of six c...
