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[RedM]: Outlaw's Atonement - 5
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[RedM]: Outlaw's Atonement - 5

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Madeline M Dunsmore
May 28, 2025
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[RedM]: Outlaw's Atonement - 5
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Of all the lawmen in the Dakotas
There was one I knew better than the rest.
He’d seen me through thick and thin
And known me from my first arrest.

Stern and stoic,
I came to think of him quietly
As a father
And there was nothing more painful
Than being a disappointment
of a daughter.

I wanted so badly to make him proud
But I had loyalties to my family…

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