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Hey, this is Annie.

And Samantha.

And welcome to Steph One Ever Told You, a prediction of IHeart Radio.

And we're back with our Sinty Fiction, which, as a reminder, is a once-month thing that we do.

Christina makes them amazing. It's ongoing. The story has been ongoing for quite a while now.

We're in part two of a trilogy, the terminus trilogy. This is technically called Big Things Start Small, but I didn't want to confuse people. But I like reminding you because I was fond of the

name. And this is something that I wrote, I believe in 2011, as part of National Novel Writing Month,

is the sequel to the previous one I had written during 2010 National Novel Writing Month.

Which, by the way, is right when I got this job as an intern 2010.

And I don't edit them too much.

I have to say I did edit this chapter a bit just because it like I don't want to it was intense.

This chapter really like goes up a notch in terms of what it's been and I just didn't want to

really disturb is too strong a word. But I didn't want people to be listening.

Whoa, wait a minute. So I did edit this chapter a little bit. And this is part, this is the

second part of the last chapter because my chapters are so long or too short. I never get it

right. But yeah, I will, I edited this one a little.

That being said, content warning for violence, disease, threats of violence, violence against children, death, which is the same that is always there, but I would say it's actually more explicit in this chapter.

So, that being said, also, the recap, briefly, we've got this disease that's really

killing off the human population, and it has to do with pregnancy, and there's this, the government and the religious organization that's controlling all aspects

of getting pregnant and having children.

Our main character, Tilda, has run away with her son, Madison, has been illegally, like,

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