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And Then There Were...

First there were eighteen. Molly. Alec. Eli. Shane. Addie. Marcus. Rana. Theo. Jacob. Dustin. Jay. Tarah. Jason. Mai. Roman. Kim. Damon. And herself. Eighteen lost, frightened, angry children, none older than six. All rounded up and bundled together and called “X-Ray.” It was chaos from Day One. They quibbled and jostled and fought over everything, from who got which bed to who got meals first to where they stood in the shower line. Alliances formed and cracked and broke apart on an almost daily basis. But there was one thing they all seemed united about, and that was their dislike for Jeanette. In typical child fashion