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I lay awake, faintly aware of the sound of my wife breathing.

Mostly I had my ears attuned to noises coming from outside.

I listened for footsteps, for whispered words, for the slide of a pump action shotgun,

where the metallic sound of a cartridge pushed into a breech.

But I heard nothing of the sort.

It gave me no comfort.

When we first moved in, I hadn't considered getting a security system.

I didn't think we would need one.

That was part of the charm, the safety of small town America.

Now wrong I was.

Even now, things had progressed to the point where I wasn't sure of a security system

would do much good.

I was beginning to think that the only thing to do was move.

We hadn't even been in the house for a month and already I was considering moving.

I was scared.

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