Dearest Belle,

I can't believe it's been almost five years since you were murdered. Your murderer is safely locked away, unable to kill any longer. I've been told she's still claiming innocence; that she was not the murderer. The fact she refuses to own up to her crimes sickens me. I wonder how you could ever bear to live under the same roof as her.

School wasn't the same after your death and your sister's arrest. The murders rocked our once-peaceful town, and the revelation that the murderer was an seemingly normal schoolgirl, even more so. As people graduated and moved onto higher education the town began to move on, but everybody still remembers the atrocities which rocked our community. It's impossible to forget.

I feel your absence every day, tearing at my heart and the hearts of those around us. There's so many things I'd have liked to say to you, but I never had the chance to do so face to face. Perhaps I'll be able to work up the strength to write them in letter format instead.

I miss you.

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