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When they arrived at the address Sam had given them, Abby and Seth sat in the Jeep for a bit––both of them feeling nervous about what they might find or not find here. Finally deciding it was time, they stepped over a couple of toppled bikes, a long-forgotten garden hose, and various broken bricks as they approached the dilapidated trailer.
Raising a hand in preparation to knock on the peeling front door, Abby heard a deep voiced woman yelling to "Git outta the damn way, you good-for-nothin' piece of shit." Her heart broke, not only for the person on the other side of the door who was being treated this way, but also for Courtney, who had likely suffered through this type of verbal and mental a***e.
She had known that Court had endured a difficult childhood, but her friend had never
