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Глава 1The Habit of Running AwayAnnie was preparing for her next time jump. There was yet another reason to run. All she needed was to leap through time again—to skip an uncomfortable conversation, bad news, necessary but unpopular decisions. Sometimes, consequences catch up with you—predictable yet unexpected. And afterward, everything becomes clear, and there's no point in suffering through it firsthand; it’s like looking at the film's ending before the story even begins.It doesn’t matter where. You can skip ahead to the future, where everything might have changed. There’s no way to know in advance if the same flow of time will remain, or if you’ll find yourself among strangers or completely different people.Lately, though, strange symptoms have been appearing before her jumps—like some higher power, perhaps her subconscious or some other force, knows beforehand that Annie w…