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Submitted to Contest #4
I had never loved the sea. As far back as I could remember the sea was something I feared. Just the smell of salt in the air and the cry of the gulls brought upon me a terror so revolting it would leave me breathless and shaking. Relatives often told me that it was a subconscious reaction from a memory long washed away by the tide. Of the stormy night where the life of my parents was taken and I a mere child somehow had survived. Despite this knowledge, I did not know how the sea tied in with the incident. Perhaps it was better that way. A...
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