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    "description": "There are two little girls in the photo. I instantly recognise myself as the small, dark-haired child in the purple dress. But who is the girl with the long blonde hair laughing at the camera? And why is the photograph here, in a stranger\u2019s house?\n\nWhen I find the tattered picture hidden away at the back of a dusty cupboard in Amy\u2019s house my mouth goes dry with shock. Though I haven\u2019t known Amy for very long, I love looking after her young children, in her picture-perfect hilltop house with its sprawling wildflower garden and bright, airy kitchen. After feeling lost for months, reeling from the accident that tore everything apart, I hoped this was my chance to turn my life around.\n\nBut I can\u2019t shake the feeling that I\u2019ve been here before. I know this house somehow, the curve of the staircase and the view from the attic window are so familiar. I can feel it in my bones. What isn\u2019t she telling me?\n\nI can\u2019t help noticing things that don\u2019t add up: Amy\u2019s guarded behaviour when I ask questions about her past, the whispered stories I overhear in the village and the locked room downstairs I\u2019m not allowed to enter.\n\nMy mother always told me we didn\u2019t have any family, that it was just the two of us against the world. I\u2019ve always been sure she was hiding something. Maybe this house will give me the answers I\u2019ve been searching for\u2026\n\nBut am I ready to unlock the secrets of my past? Or should I have stayed well away? ",
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