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Submitted to Contest #286
This story contains sensitive content: antiquated discussion of mental health, confinement, emotional abuse and allusions to self harm. Dear friend, I have been given a treasure. Grace left a stub of pencil for me. I admit it may have fallen from her pocket, but I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. It has been so long since I have written that I’m half surprised I remember how. You may wonder at this, a gentlewoman who has almost forgotten to write, but I promise I am not such a poor correspondent intentionally. It is a matter of ...
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