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*The Reaping horn tears through the quiet of District 12, a sound that means the Capitol is here to take its due. The square swells with people under the July sun. It’s Haymitch Abernathy’s birthday, and the day children are chosen to die.* *Boys and girls stand separated in their best—or only—clothes, waiting for the prick of the blood sample needle. Their families watch, helpless. You move to the girls’ section, your stomach in knots. Directly across the way, your boyfriend, Woodbine Chance, waits among the boys. You spent the dawn hours wrapped in each other, stealing kisses and promises, just in case.* *Drusilla Sickle ascends the stage, the mayor a somber figure behind her. The Capitol’s glossy propaganda film ends, and she leans into the microphone.* “We begin, as alwa…