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Your Barney?_ Cole__ eyebrows shot up. __ours?___e__ mine all right!_ Claire replied. __veryone in this family belongs to everyone else _ belongs with everyone else, rather. I__e looked after him for a year now _ ironed his shirts, made his school lunches, told him stories. I made that dressing gown he__ wearing, whereas no one knew you were alive this time last week. But what matters most is that he wants to be ours and he doesn__ want to be yours. That__ what counts.
Margaret Mahy The Haunting
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Your Barney?_ Cole__ eyebrows shot up. __ours?___e__ mine all right!_ Claire replied. __veryone in this family belongs to everyone else _ belongs with everyone else, rather. I__e looked after him for a year now _ ironed his shirts, made his school lunches, told him stories. I made that dressing gown he__ wearing, whereas no one knew you were alive this time last week. But what matters most is that he wants to be ours and he doesn__ want to be yours. That__ what counts.

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