I started thinking about running away the first day I arrived there.” “Did you?” “Many times. They always found me. Sometimes just down the street.” “What were you running to?” “What?” “What were you running to?” Richard thought about it for a while. He knew he was running away from a house that had pictures of long-dead people on the walls breathing down on him. But he didn’t know what he was running toward. Did children ever think about that? “Maybe I was running to Molly. I don’t know.” “I knew what I wanted to run to. But it didn’t exist, so I didn’t leave,” Kainene said, leaning back on
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