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Submitted to Contest #275
Alaya wasn’t at all happy with her life. First of all, her dad had died in a car crash and it had hit her mother and her hard. Second of all, for Alaya that hit was depression. And lastly, her mom was going to lose her job as an Indigenous Site tour guide because younger, better workers were coming in.Also have I mentioned the thugs of classmates that had banded together on Alaya and she had just barely gotten away from? Well, now I have.Alaya by no means looked like she had problems; that morning she had chosen old jeans, a hazel shirt and ...
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