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Submitted to Contest #329
It’s late, and every muscle in her body is tense. She is 13, maybe 15. Looking back, she can never really remember how old she was at the time. Online forums will tell her trauma can ruin memory. Not the trauma itself, of course, but the repeated refusal to remember. After the initial trauma, a person can either ruminate or forget, or at least those were her choices. And, really, she didn’t have a choice at all. If she ruminated, she wouldn’t be able to live with herself, or with him. As time went by -days first, then weeks and then months w...
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