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Submitted to Contest #176
In. Out. In. Out. I take a small step out of my bedroom. Carefully. Silently. My mind, always the contrarian, flashes back to my mother catching me at age eight with a smeared face and handfuls of Kouign Amann hiding in our kitchen dumbwaiter. But, as I creep towards her drawing room, I know that a sore behind is a better punishment than the one I would reap if Madame Riche was to see me creeping along her foyer late at night. As my caretaker, the Madame is my North Star. She instructs me in the way that I, as a high society lady, should s...
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