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Book: The Fallen
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  1. David Baldacci _ The Fallen

    But then again, our life is what we make it, right? Bad choices. You can't blame others for that.
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  2. David Baldacci _ The Fallen

    That's about what most of us will get, thought Decker. And then we just live on in memories and fading pictures set on tables and hung on walls.
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  3. David Baldacci _ The Fallen

    happened?" "Yeah.
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  4. David Baldacci _ The Fallen

    Chapter 1 Chapter 2
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  5. David Baldacci _ The Fallen

    know, it's harder to get back in shape than it is to stay in shape.
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  6. David Baldacci _ The Fallen

    Sorry if I interrupted your baking." Bond waved this off. "I was already done. The loaf's out of the oven now. It's one of my few pleasures left. I bake at all hours of the day and night.
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  7. David Baldacci _ The Fallen

    off." Decker nodded and looked over at where Baron and Jamison were escorting Amber and Zoe
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  8. David Baldacci _ The Fallen

    Do you know who did it?
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  9. David Baldacci _ The Fallen

    Dollars to donuts you're looking at ODs there," said Kemper, pointing to some young people getting out of cars and heading to one of the gravesites. "Over eighty thousand people in America this year alone," she added. "More than died in Vietnam and the wars in the Middle East combined. And far more than die in traffic accidents or by guns, and it's only getting worse. Next year we'll probably be looking at over a hundred thousand dead. The opioid crisis is actually responsible for the life expectancy in this country starting to go down. Can you wrap your head around that? Nearly a half million dead since 2000. Drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans under age fifty. We had a recent study done at DEA. Life insurance companies value a human life at about five million bucks. Using that number and other factors, our people projected the economic loss to the country each year due to the opioid crisis at about a hundred billion dollars. A third of the population is on medication for pain. And they're not getting addicted on street corners. They're getting addicted at their doctors' offices." "From prescription painkillers.
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  10. David Baldacci _ The Fallen

    Businesses don't give a crap about creating jobs. They care about making money. With robots, you'll just need some tech guys to maintain and repair them.
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  11. David Baldacci _ The Fallen

    The opportunity came up here, and presto, there you go. Sometimes that's all you need for a major life change: a dream.
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