Keara Bones was sitting in the turquoise chair staring, deep in thought, at the pictures in the frames on the wall. Keara's gaze drifted towards the bookshelf in the left hand corner of the room. Her eyes followed the bookshelf to the roof of the room. There her eyes became bored and they traveled back to the pictures. Keara's favorite one was a picture of herself running along side Peach, her dog. Keara looked at the frame and for the first time ever she noted that the frame had the same decorations as the flower vase in the middle of the chocolate brown coffee table. The vase was as brown as the coffee table and was decorated with little white numbers just like the frame.
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