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When Star No Longer Shines
Star wasn’t available, which was weird.
Beyond weird. Weird enough that my stomach was doing this funky flip that made me question whether my as-yet-to-be-verified precognition skills were in action…or I was just hungry.
She didn’t answer her cell, no one picked up on the landline at her house (who still had a landline?), and the receptionist at Kowalski Funeral Home didn’t have a clue where she was.
Worse yet, the receptionist, in a moment of panic, had confided that she’d been trying to reach Star for the last hour without any success.
I hated to pry in Star’s life (not really; I was completely fascinated by her and wanted to be her when I grew up), but desperate times and all that.
Who do you call if you need to find someone off grid?
If you’re me, y
