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Weekly Contest #301
Maedb had always been a homebird, as her mother would say. She liked being at home. Home was nice, home was safe. As a child, she hated being anywhere that her parents were not. When she got dropped off at school, she would cry and cry and cry, morning until lunchtime, because she always felt a little bit better after her peanut butter sandwich and Kitkat. Her mother still talks about the time she took her to swimming lessons, and the swimming teacher having to have a word with her after the lesson, telling her she’s really sorry but she has...
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