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    Who We Once Were
    Who We Once Were
    Who We Once Were
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    Who We Once Were

    By Samantha Coville

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    "Scarlett Emit's life changed the moment Uncle Luke came down Carriage Street."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSamantha Coville
    Release dateSep 1, 2014
    Who We Once Were
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    Samantha Coville

    Samantha Coville is an editor and literary critic at her website, Sammy the Bookworm. She’s been writing short stories for six years and has appeared in magazines, both in print and online. When she’s not doing something book related, she is singing in her church choir or enjoying one of the theme parks in her home state of Florida.

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      Who We Once Were - Samantha Coville

      WHO WE ONCE WERE

      SAMANTHA COVILLE

      Copyright 2014 Samantha Coville

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Cover image by Maria Morri

      Formatting by Mike Coville (http://www.mikecoville.com)

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      Samantha Coville

      Visit my website at www.SamanthaCoville.com

      First Printing: September 2014

      For Rachel. Tú es loco en la cabeza.

      Scarlett Emit’s life changed the moment Uncle Luke came down Carriage Street. Of course, she wasn’t aware of it then, but it would become evident as the years went by. At the time, Scarlett was only four years old and her world revolved around her Mama. There was no father around He’d left barely six months earlier, chasing a life outside of the small, suburban town that Carriage Street resided in.

      Many would consider Scarlett lonely and many considered her Mama to be more so. On that fateful day, Mama was curled up by herself on the couch in the living room of the two bedroom house. Her fingers worked away busily on her knitting project, but her eyes were lifeless as her mind went blank, performing a task that was common to it.

      And little Scarlett was also by herself, sitting on the tiny front yard that perfectly

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