Steve Burton hung up the phone and carefully comforted a weeping Ruby Gregory in his arms for quite a while. It was only after Ruby finally ceased crying that he carefully placed her on the bed. Then he took a wet wipe to clean the tears off her cheeks and kissed her forehead before sitting by the bed. After a pause, he picked up his cellphone again and called Howard Coleman.
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Ever since Howard Coleman saw the words "Together in April, a century of harmony," those eight characters had been echoing in his mind, completely oblivious to the dusk settling outside the window. In the room without lights, the illumination grew fainter and fainter.
Howard Coleman lay dazed, unsure of how long he had been there, when suddenly the silence was broken by the ringtone of his cellphone.
