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Prologue-Chapter 5

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Hawkins, Paula. A Slow Fire Burning. Riverhead Books, 2021. Hardcover.

· In the Prologue is a description of a young girl fleeing for her life and being recaptured by her captor.

· A woman named Irene shuts the book and calls it drivel as she throws it on the pile of things to donate.

· In Chapter 1, Laura is staring at her arm, which is cut and bleeding badly.

· She strips, showers, and then wraps her arm in reams of toilet paper.

· She tries to call her mother, but she gets no answer.

· When she calls her father to see if he can come over, his wife speaks up from the bathroom and tells him they have bridge.

· Laura tells him that she will be okay.

· On her way back to the bathroom, she steps on her jacket...

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