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Police say instructor Justin Fuller "is presumed to have fallen from the sky without a parachute" during the jump on Saturday.

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"The people I was working with presumed Sunderland would be my club," he explains.

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"I always presumed that the people who lived here before left them just for now or at least something would be put down so it wasn't that bad," Kassie tells me as she looks around.

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Jimmy travels by boat from their home on the Orkney mainland to investigate and discovers his friend’s body close to an archaeological dig, a nearby stone artifact with spiral carvings the presumed weapon.

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Choi's sixth novel starts with a 10-year-old girl taking a walk on a beach with her father, then waking up alone on the shore, with her dad presumed drowned.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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