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I am reading The Shack by WM. Paul Young and I am on page 85. This book is about a guy who’s daughter went missing and they still have not found her. The only evidence is a bloody dress the police found in a shack. Four years later he returns back to the shack because he claims that god sent him a letter to come back. In this Journal I will be questioning

In this book a family goes up to a lake for the weekend and while they were up there one of Mackenzie daughters named Missy gets kidnapped. While Mackenzie, the dad, was down by the lake helping his other two boys out, an unidentified man takes Missy. This man left behind a ladybug clip while five black polka dots representing that Missy was his fifth adduction. This makes me wonder if
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