When the time came to punish me for my sins, my father decided against exiling me to a tropical island. He chose Wolf Hall, because he figured I wouldn’t be able to get myself into any trouble halfway up a mountain in the middle of New Hampshire. He figured I’d be confined to a room, so desperate for something to do that I’d actually throw myself into my schoolwork. If he’d done his research, he’d have realized that there was another public school within Mountain Lakes’ town limits. And if he knew absolutely anything about teenagers, stranded in small towns with very few amenities, he’d have
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