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16 days are left until the release of Independence.  The final book of the Significance series by Shelly Crane.

17 days are left until the release of Independence.  The final book of the Significance series by Shelly Crane.

We are on Book 3: Defiance. Since this is getting harder and harder to keep "spoiler" free I am going to WARN YOU NOW. If you haven't read the first 2 books there MAYBE spoilers for you.

Here are the highlights from Chapter 1:

Donald, don't throw out your condescension on us, now.  We're all standing in the doorway because you're blocking our way, you old star struck fool. ---Gran
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Donald, Maggie is only seventeen years old and was a human.  She has human ties; a father and brother, friends.  You cannot expect her to uproot herself completely and come to live here. ---Peter
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Here are the highlights from Chapter 2:

You...tainted our Visionary before you were married? ---Donald
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We received you message, but this is a classic case of he said/she said. ---Donald
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You didn't mess anything up.  They're just all a bunch of coots, is all. ---Caleb
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How about a dance, pretty lady. ---Rodney
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You've got the whole...cowboy look going on. ---Lynne
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Here are the highlights from Chapter 3:

Ah, the Jacobson prince.  How lucky for Maggie that she had such a big, strong boy to keep her safe from my insults. ---Marcus
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Our way are best and with good reason.  Morals are the highest obligation and responsibility to our people. ---Donald
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Please don't provoke them.  We'll get through this. ---Rachel
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So, what do you think??? Is Maggie and Caleb in trouble???

Until tomorrow................

21 days are left until the release of Independence.  The final book of the Significance series by Shelly Crane.

We are on Book 2: Accordance.

Here are the highlights from Chapter 30:

Maggie. Caleb.  Good of you to join us. ---Sikes
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Villainy 101; always have a backup to your backup. ---Marcus
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Ooh, I love to see a newly mated couple.  So feisty. ---Sikes
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So I'm a...poacher? ---Caleb
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Here are the highlights from Chapter 31:

Maggie: You could have told me
Kyle: What would have been fun about that?
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Caleb: I'm sorry.  Forgive me.
Maggie: Maybe, after some persuasion.
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We have finished book 2!!! Onto Book 3 .... tomorrow....

22 days are left until the release of Independence.  The final book of the Significance series by Shelly Crane.

We are on Book 2: Accordance.

Here are the highlights from Chapter 28:

Maggie:  I look terrible.
Caleb: No, you look like someone who's been loved on.
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Ok the only reason there is only one highlight for this chapter is because if I post anything else it will spoil the surprise.

Here are the highlights from Chapter 29:

I know lots of things.  Just go.  We were fine before you came. ---Maggie
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I like you in my t-shirts but I kinda miss your fruit shorts. ---Caleb
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I can't promise that, but I can promise you that we'll try like hell. ---Caleb


We are getting close to the end of book 2!!

Until tomorrow..............

23 days are left until the release of Independence.  The final book of the Significance series by Shelly Crane.

We are on Book 2: Accordance.

Here are the highlights from chapter 26

Gran: Sleep tight, you two.
Caleb: That's not all they're gonna be doing.
Gran: Caleb Maxwell Jacobson! For shame.
Maggie: Maxwell? How did I not know your middle name?
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Maggie: You're not tired?
Caleb: Not after all that, no. Are you?
Maggie: A little.
Caleb: You don't sound tired to me
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Caleb, honey, we need to work on your timing skills. ---Rachel
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Caleb, thank you for being so you. ---Maggie
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Destiny is meddlesome wench isn't she? ---Kyle
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Caleb: Alright, well, we're going to tell Maggie's father.  Dude, what are you doing?
Kyle: Just memorizing your pretty face before it gets all mangled.
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Here are the highlights from chapter 27:

Maggie: You're awfully cocky.  What makes you think he won't freak? He is my father and I'm his only little girl.
Caleb: Betcha five bucks.
Maggie: Deal....I'll take your money and buy a honey bun with a diet cream soda and I won't share with you.
Caleb: You're going to be singing a different  tune in a little while.  I hope you're not too full on omelet to eat crow.
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It's the best feeling in the world to know that I'm in the heart of the most important person to me and the proof of that is literally right under my fingertips.  ---Caleb
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It was better than chocolate! It was better than honey buns!  It was better than kisses and touches and sweet words combined.  I was enraptured. ---Maggie
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Chapter 27 is by far on of my favorite chapters!!

What did y'all think?

Until tomorrow...............

30 days are left until the release of Independence.  The final book of the Significance series by Shelly Crane.

We are on Book 2: Accordance.

Here are the highlights from Chapter 24:

Lynne: But he likes you.  He watched you.
Maggie: He seem to like you an awful lot too.
Lynne: Boys like that don't like girls like me.
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"I'm not leaving you!" ---Maggie
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"Maggie took care of me, Mom.  It's fine." ---Caleb
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Here are the highlights from Chapter 25:

"You look like crap if it's ok for me to say that." ---Lynne
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Oh, this is so going to your pretty little head. ---Caleb
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"Now ain't that a sight" ---Gran
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Gran: Oh, look at us! How young and handsome was he?
Caleb: You were pretty smoking too, Gran.
Gran: Now don't go throwing your lies at me!
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31 days are left until the release of Independence.  The final book of the Significance series by Shelly Crane.

We are on Book 2: Accordance.

Here are the highlights of Chapter 22:

"I won't touch her.  I just want to make sure she's ok." ---Bish
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Bish: How old are you?
Ecstasy: 18.
Bish: Then, no, we don't have any booze.
Ecstasy: Nark.
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Here are the highlights from Chapter 23:

You could have told me, dude.  I'm not nine.  I think I could have handled it. ---Kyle
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Caleb: ... Oh well.  let's get you a ticker.
Kyle: I got this.
Caleb: But she's our responsibility.
Lynne: Uh, hello, standing right here!
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You're enjoying that memory a little too much, I think. ---Caleb
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Until tomorrow...................

33 days are left until the release of Independence.  The final book of the Significance series by Shelly Crane.

We are on Book 2: Accordance.

Here are the highlights from Chapter 20:

"Wow.  So you're like a superhuman heroine or something?" ---Ecstasy
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"Did you guys have fun?  I see you brought home leftovers." ---Bish
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Man, you are making this whole not liking you thing so easy.---Bish
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You're so sweet and you care about everybody.  You hate it when people are upset with you.  You love cream soda.  It's kind of hard to be mad at someone who's like that. ---Caleb
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I look up to him, my rock star, my sweet guy, my open book significant.  He stood up for me with Bish and his dad and Kyle.  He always took care of me even though everyone made out like he didn't. ---Maggie
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Here are the highlights from Chapter 21:

Maggie: Are you really surprised?
Bish: Yes. You just keep coming up with these thing you can do.
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She's special. ---Caleb
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Let's get back to this and get it over with.  I'm ready for bed. ---Maggie

Until tomorrow....................

34 days are left until the release of Independence.  The final book of the Significance series by Shelly Crane.

We are on Book 2: Accordance.

Here are the highlights of Chapter 18:

Maggie: I don't want to hurt you.
Kyle: And I don't want to you to hide from me.  We're friends, that's all.  I can deal with it.
Maggie: By moping around and hardly speaking to anyone.
Kyle: I didn't have anything to say.
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Well, I'm not the same little girl you always knew either.  I can kick your butt now. ---Maggie
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Rachel Practically glowed with pride and Peter wrapped his arms around her from behind, kissing her cheek.  It was one of the sweetest things I'd ever seen as they watch Caleb, their son, my significant, totally in his element.  ---Maggie
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Beck: Look at you two.  You're so cute.  It's like you're having a conversation with your eyes or something.
Kyle: They practically are.  It's just disgusting.
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Here are the highlights from Chapter 19:

Maggie: It meant nothing.
Caleb: I know.
Kyle: It didn't feel like nothing to me.
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This chapter is hard because there are spoilers and I don't like to spoil


Until tomorrow........................

35 days are left until the release of Independence.  The final book of the Significance series by Shelly Crane.

We are on Book 2: Accordance.

Here are the highlights from Chapter 16:

Maggie: What are we making?
Caleb: My aunt left a quiche recipe here.  It's so good, you'll forget about everything else.
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So, Dad, have you drank the Kool-Aid too? ---Bish
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Here are the highlights from Chapter 17:

I wish I knew how.  Like, if I could find a genie to teach me to surf in like, a minute. ---Maggie
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Beck: Ooooh! It got in my hair!
Maggie: It's just seaweed!
Beck: I don't see you with seaweed in your hair!
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Maggie: Blackmail, really?
Caleb: Whatever it takes.
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You guys are sweeter than a sugar rush, Mags. ---Beck
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Zeke: Caleb, what are you wearing, man?  I thought we said-
Caleb: You said.  Number one, I don't own any leather.  Number two, you'll never get me in any.
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I never thought I'd say this, but stay with Kyle. ---Caleb
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Until tomorrow...................

36 days are left until the release of Independence.  The final book of the Significance series by Shelly Crane.

We are on Book 2: Accordance.

Here are the highlights from Chapter 14:

It doesn't matter what I want/  It's what's best and what's the safest for everyone. --Caleb
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Life is about risk. ---Maggie
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Maggie: I don't know if I'll be about to control it, Caleb.  I feel like such a freak, I'm all over the place.
Caleb: A hot freak
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I totally loved it when he lost control and I drove him crazy. ---Maggie
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I thought you were suppose to be the responsible one. ---Caleb
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Here are the highlights from Chapter 15:

I love you.  I just want you to know that.  I have always appreciated you looking after me.  You are my brother.  ---Maggie
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I'm not a good person, Maggie.---Bish
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Caleb is my protector now.  He's in my mind, my body, my ... soul. ---Maggie
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Until tomorrow..............

39 days are left until the release of Independence.  The final book of the Significance series by Shelly Crane.

We are on Book 2: Accordance

Here are the highlights from Chapter 6:

I'm sorry.  I  mean it.  I'm so sorry.  I was so caught up in the novelty of it all that I forgot that you were still mine to look after.  Forgive me. ---Caleb
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I need you at my side, Caleb, not at my feet. ---Maggie
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I'm sorry, Maggie.  I'm just so tired of playing second string. --Kyle
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No more apologies. But you can't run out on me like that, Maggie.  I was in agony worrying about you. --Caleb
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There's a picture of you two in the dictionary under 'get a room' ---Kyle
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Here are the highlights from Chapter 7:

Maggie: Caleb, I need you.
Caleb: What do you need?
Maggie: You.
Caleb: Does this require a human sacrifice?
Maggie: No. You remember I told you how I needed you at my side?  I do, always.  I can't do any of this without you.
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Here are the highlights from Chapter 8:

Jen: Have y'all been having fun here? We always loved it here when we came during the summer.
Bish: Oh yeah.  Caleb and Maggie have been all over each other.  Maggie is acting like a freaking psycho, running off in the Jeep for hours, not caring about who's worried about her and then lying to my face about it all.  Kyle is the only sane one in the lot of them.
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The wind was blowing especially hard and I picked up some sand and let it blow away through my fingers, like my life. ---Maggie
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I love him and I'm not gonna reject him or your family or your ways.  I've seen it.  ---Maggie
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Rachel: He's pretty smart, my son.
Maggie: He's pretty...everything.  I don't know what I'd do without him now.
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All will be as it should be, Maggie.  We can't out run destiny. ---Rachel
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So, what do think about Maggie and the chances in her life?

Until tomorrow..................

40 days are left until the release of Independence.  The final book of the Significance series by Shelly Crane.

We are on Book 2: Accordance

Here are the highlights from Chapter 4:

Maggie: Caleb, I've never done this before.  It's so cold and the water's deep and there could be something in there.
Caleb: Well, I hope there's something in there.  It is the ocean,
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I could taste the salt from the seawater on our lips, but as he deepened the kiss, it was all Caleb.  And I missed him. --Maggie
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Ok, this chapter is hard because I don't want to spoil it .... 

Here are the highlights from Chapter 5:

Greed, Pride, Ignorance, Complacency, Redemption.  The fate of all rest in the hands of all. --Maggie
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Maggie: What? Kyle, what are you doing?
Kyle: You have no idea, do you?  You have no idea what you are.
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Caleb: Maggie, stop.  Where are you going?
Maggie: Away.
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I know I messed up, but I can't fix it until she talks to me now can I? ---Caleb
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So, what did you think???? Until tomorrow.............

41 days are left until the release of Independence.  The final book of the Significance series by Shelly Crane.

We are on Chapter 2.  Here are the highlights:

Ah, Maggie, you look so gorgeous. ---Caleb
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You are really soft and sweet smelling for someone who claimed to have been tortured.  ---Caleb
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Caleb can't be comfortable like that.  And I never pegged you as the clingy girlfriend. ---Bish
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Onto Chapter 3.  Here are the highlights:

I just wish you'd trust me to handle whatever it is that you're keeping from me. ---Bish
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Maggie: So what's so unconventional about him?
Caleb: Well...picture Russell Brand and Jonah Hill have a baby
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Kyle, please. I want to be your friend but you can't do this.  I'm sorry.  I wish I could help but I can't and Caleb isn't going to like this.  Let go.  ---Maggie
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Kyle: What's your problem?
Maggie: Nothing.
Kyle: That's right, nothing.  You don't get a say in what I do, Maggie.  I could take the whole party home to screw and you couldn't say one word to me about it!
Caleb: Hey! You need to calm down.  You don't talk to her like that. Go. Go to the house, whatever, I don't care, but go before you say something stupid and I have to do something about it.
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So, do you think Bish is figuring Maggie and Caleb's relationship?  What is up with Kyle's attitude?

We are now back on track.  Again, sorry about the issues with Book 1: Significance.

We have 57 days left until the release of Book 4: Independence. Tonight is Chapter 1 of Book 2: Accordance.

Here are the highlights:

A prophecy.  What is this, Harry Potter? --Maggie
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That bastard cut my hair! --Maggie
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Maggie: So, you don't want to see me naked?
Caleb:  Of course I do.  Don't start your girly insecurities with me, Maggie Masters.  I just don't want the temptation.
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Salon worker: Well them, let's get you situated.  Sugar Daddy can hang in the waiting area.
Maggie: But he's not my--
Salon worker: Oh, it's ok, honey.  It's California.  Everybody has one and those that don't wish they did.

Until tomorrow.............

OK a fan of the page just sent me a Twitter message saying "what happen to the countdown?"  I thought it was posting but something was wrong with the sight .... I AM SO SORRY!!

So, I am going to fix this real fast. I am going to finish up Book 1: Significance.

Again, I am so sorry about this!!

Chapter 31 highlights:

I told you in the very beginning that I'll let you set the pace and that still stands.  ---Caleb
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I'm happy, just like this, for now.  ---Caleb
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I love you too, baby.  I don't see how I can love you anymore than I do right now. ---Caleb
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I still felt tense and apprehensive, I had not idea what it was really or what it entailed or what it would feel like but this was Caleb.  I had to stop thinking of him as just a boy.  ---Maggie
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Chapter 32 highlights:

(hehe! this is my favorite chapter with Caleb and Maggie!)

Caleb:  Take it easy for a while and not be so wound tight.
Maggie:  I've had good reason to be so wound.
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You would never hurt me.  I know that more than anything else, especially after being in your mind.  You'd never do anything that I didn't want to do and I;m not worried about losing ourselves either.  Haven't I always kept you a gentleman?  ---Maggie
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Ok, that is the end of Book 1: Significance!!  We are will begin Book 2:

Can you believe that it is only 60 days until the release of Independence!?

I cannot believe that Maggie and Caleb's story will come to an end.

So, let's keep going through Book 1: Significance and here are the highlights:

Maggie:  I thought with my new man arms I would be able to lift a duffel bag.
Caleb:  You're stronger than you were but you're still not Wonder Woman
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Don't do anything stupid and give me a reason to have to kill your boyfriend.---Bish
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Maggie:  But I thought it was so secret.
Caleb: It is, but your happiness is more important than a secret.
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Maggie: He was going to try to spoil me, I could see it now
Caleb: You bet your pretty tush I am.
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Here I was, running you down the river because of you spending your dad's money and you're like the sweetest guy ever. ---Maggie
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My most favorite like is the last line of the chapter.  I cannot put it in here because I am trying to keep it "spoiler free".  However, if you get a chance read that last line!!

Until tomorrow...............

61 days......61 very long days until the release of Independence. But, I think we can hang on ... maybe!?

Well, we are on Chapter 29 and here are the highlights:

Maggie: Hey, Gran
Gran: Hey, pretty girl.  You make a good entrance.
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But never again.  You keep each other safe from now on and all will be well. ---Gran
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I'm not worried about the money, I'm worried about you. ---Caleb
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I'm glad you finally got everything right again.  I've been so worried about you two.  ---Jen
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As he turned away I stopped in a revelation.  I realized that I never felt the stuck feeling of needing to be released from him just now, even a little.  It was the first time we'd both walked away of our own free will. ---Maggie
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Bish: I'll try Maggie.  I want to like Caleb, I do.
Maggie: Well, you better get started because he's it for me.
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So, much going on in this chapter! What do you think of Bish in this chapter.....do you think he can figure it out???

Until Tomorrow................