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Submitted to Contest #334
Once upon a time, there was a princess who grew herself a poison garden. It was a garden she had created as a young lady in training, a fledgling still being molded. When days were dreary, and despair was buried deep in her bones, she would escape to the barren lot for peace. On one particular day, as she desperately sought refuge with a quaking heart, shaking hands, and a pounding head, she had spotted one of the gardener's tools left abandoned to the side. That was when an idea stuck. Taking up a shovel, she began to dig. It did not mat...
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