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Juliana Hapka

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Starting your own life means ending theirs.

Submitted to Contest #70

"I'll be down later." was a common phrase and lie that Jess told too often to herself and her siblings as she shut her door and climbed up her stairs to the attic. It's not like she wanted to be away or had better things to do. It was just easier. Easier to hide, sit out of the tension that filled the house from her Mother. Don't get things twisted, Mother is just trying to be the best mother she could be given the life choices she makes for herself. There are three children besides Jess, who happens to be the oldest. The gap between her and...

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