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Submitted to Contest #336
At my birth, my mother, having run through the names of all the other pious women she could remember off the top of her head on my sisters, gave her infant daughter a name she thought fitting of my dark hair and even darker eyes. Salome, the girl who would be responsible for culling the head of St. John the Baptist. Cursed. “I’ll name you for the temptress,” she said as she rocked her swaddled babe, no longer than a loaf of barley bread. “A girl with a curse is a girl who knows how to survive.” I looked the most like her of all the children....
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