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A girl named Sara was betrothed to Jeremy, a dimwitted ranch hand out of Shady River. The day she is supposed to marry Jeremy he lights her mothers house on fire and almost kills her and her mother and her baby sister Maggie. Sara manages to save Maggie and herself but not her mother before Jeremy's plan to end all ties to her mother were completed. As she watched the house down up in flames the fire department could do nothing.. The fire chief said regretfully
"We are sorry for your loss Sara but there was nothing we could do her or him."
She sat there holding Maggie with no knowledge ...

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