FIFTY SIX: NICOLE AND HER DOPPELGANGER

The book was titled "Beginning and End of a girl named Nicole" and it was really intriguing. I know, because I kept reading it throughout the night. I couldn't put it down. Besides the fact that it was really interesting, it caught my fancy in a way. It felt like the book was originally meant for me. And it was written for me and about me. I think I am Nicole. I strongly believe that was the message Robinson was trying to pass across to me. He knew I was smart enough to decipher it. When I read further, I found out why this gift of Robin to me was really special. It was a book about me, or a girl like me, and it was a guide for me to live in the human world unscathed, or so I thought. I figured that Robin gave me that book because he thought he would not be coming back, he might have believed he'd not make it, that the war would kill him, or freeze him in his world, and since he was obligated to protect me, he had to write a guide for me. As I held the book in my hands and read it,