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Submitted to Contest #62
Chapter One: The Visitor In The Night Carmen Terry was a young girl of 13. She had light brown hair that reached to the tips of her elbows. She was fairly tall for her age and had often been teased for it by the other children in the local village. She had fair skin, scattered with freckles which matched her dark brown eyes. The most noticeable thing about her was her wide sweet smile. Carmen was an only child who lived with her single mother. Her father had died when she was very young. Her mother was left...
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