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FICTION > NOVEL
Begun by Jessica at age 10 and continued through to age 12 when enrolled at Cameron School in Burnaby, B.C. Unfinished and unpublished. 1975-77. Reproduced entirely in small capitals in accordance with the author's original manuscript including original punctuation, and spelling errors (marked*).
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BY JESSICA
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CHAPTER 1
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CHAPTER 2
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CHAPTER 3
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CHAPTER 4
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CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
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CHAPTER 7
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CHAPTER 8
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CHAPTER 9
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CHAPTER 10
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NOVEL
(otherwise untitled)
CHAPTER 10
Melissa also knew she was the next target. Something was happening between Jill and the man. It was vertually* impossible to get off the island. She knew she would die, but somehow it didn't seem to matter. All that mattered was that she solve the mystery.
What was the connection between140 Patricia's writing of Cynthia, and Jill's middle name? She remembered141 her thought that morning and remembered that it could be a relitive,* like Jill's mother. If only she could remember Jill's mother's name! Wait, now she could recall142 going to babysit Jill at her house, and picking up the newspaper and getting the mail just before knocking on the door. She also recalled glancing at the letter and seeing it was another bill. This made her feel especially sad, because Mrs. Monroe was a single parent and got no child support, her husband had supposedly run off. If only she could remember the first name. But hold on, Jill was here, why couldn't she just ask her! What a fool, she should have done that in the first place! Her heart pounded, for if Jill's mother's name was Cynthia, it would be a big step forward.
She forced herself forward to where Jill and the man were,
[unfinished]
The summer of 1977, as Jessica was approaching her twelfth birthday, she accompanied her mother and maternal grandmother to Trinidad for a family reunion followed by a brief holiday in Tobago. This trip was preceded by a `detour' visit by Jessica alone to visit her father and his second family in Toronto. After two days she `ran away' to call police from a phone booth and was returned by her stepmother to her mother and grandmother who were waiting in a hotel to proceed following the visit to the reunion. These arrangements had been negotiated by a psychiatrist prior to the trip as Jessica had initially declined a visit to her father.
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