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Submitted to Contest #35
Heather watched as the Big Ben clock tower spun slowly forward one hour. She sat in a tree on a hill in London, swinging her legs to and fro, thinking about her life. This was often a thought topic for young Heather - how her mother and father passed away when she was young, and she was tossed aside by her cruel uncle, and how she'd been living as a thief, scrounging for scraps to survive since she was about ten years old. She'd always thought she would prefer a self-sustaining life rather than one at an orphanage, so she t...
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