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From Joe's writing

It’s been so long since I’ve written to you, Dear Diary. My mind has been in such a darkness. It is all I can do to put one foot in front of the other. I have no one to talk to, and the rare days that Obadiah allows me to leave the house it is always with Torrington or another one of his lackeys.

— Leap Year, chapter 58