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Submitted to Contest #64
Trigger warning: self-harm You hear your grandparents talking about their childhood. If your grandparents aren't rotting six feet in the ground, like mine. Whatever. The last time I had fun was two years ago, when we went to Maine for my thirteenth birthday. I was with my best friend, Blue. I don't know why her parents named her Blue. But, they did, so she had to live with it. We were doing the Naruto run down the beach, screaming "Walgreens" at the top of our lungs. Just the other night we had borrowed a lipstick and a blush palette ...
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