The Giver: A Short Story

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Click, as the giver unbuckled his seatbelt and got out of the limo. “I hope he will do okay, I don’t want to lose another person I love.” The giver thought. The giver then just walked away to his secluded house forgetting to close the door. Thumping as the giver trudged up to speak to Melisa, his wife. The giver knew that she was supposed to let Melisa go into the house of the childless, because our child had grown up. “But, I love her. Even though she would never understand it was precision of language she would say. ” Mind rapped around words and phrases of everyone he loved and lost swirled around in the giver’s head. Then all of the sudden Melisa decided to walk up to the giver, poked him on the shoulder and said,” you have been standing

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