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A young woman wrapped in a patchwork quilt looks out an attic window at a stormy, rainy night with trees swaying and the moon visible.

A young woman wrapped in a patchwork quilt looks out an attic window at a stormy, rainy night with trees swaying and the moon visible.

It was a dark and stormy night. In her attic bedroom Margaret Marry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed inside her old house and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind. Behind the trees clouds scudded frantically across the sky. Every few moments the moon ripped through them, creating wraithlike shadows that raced along the ground. The house shook. Wrapped in her quilt, Meg shook. See more