Complete text: realizing they had moved across the living room to the front of the fireplace , she spun around and grabbed the poker . the man had just regained his composure , and was aiming a gun at her back when she spun around , and made like a batter . a cracking noise echoed off the walls as the gun flew across the room and unloaded a chamber . anna did n't wait ; she beat him , relentlessly , with the
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