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Submitted to Contest #234
I hated him from the first second I laid eyes on him. Thirteen hours of grueling labor and nine months of pregnancy and this was my prize. A shrieking, ugly, detestable baby. The greatest, most unbearable pain of my life was all for this? If I could turn back the clock and stop this pregnancy, I would in a heartbeat. I lay crumpled on the hospital bed, feeling relieved that it was over but at the same time, a dense sense of dread bearing down on me. Dread for the next eighteen years that I have to sacrifice for this creature. T...
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