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Submitted to Contest #306
Summer of 2015 As my family sits around the haphazardly placed couches, glasses full of celebration clinking and words full of hope bouncing around, I think to myself, “My life has collapsed.” This change, this uprootedness, this chaos has to be the hardest thing I’ve ever endured. Just a couple months ago, I spent each joyful day in my home, in my town of close friends and neighbors. I floated down the river with my brother and mother, laying still as the sun slowly turned my skin hot. I swung on the tire my father hung under our cherry blo...
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