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Submitted to Contest #303
I didn’t have a choice when my mother decided to have me out of wedlock. And it wasn’t because she so desperately wanted to have a daughter of her own; it was because her beliefs prevented her from choosing otherwise. The ones she was raised to uphold, even if her own life was in danger. So when she died giving birth, I was brought into a world where no one was ever going to answer for me or answer to me. No one was going to ever acknowledge what was to become my sense of injustice at having been given life without anyone’s consent - even my...
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