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Submitted to Contest #11
Returning to that parking lot gave Amber Rose a lot of flashbacks. Flashbacks to when her father would take her to that exact parking lot and beat her till she bled. Flashbacks to when her mother left her and her dad in that exact parking lot and running away with some rich guy who could actually afford his house. Her father struggled to pay rent until his last breath until he was too weak to beat her, so he cried. Every day until he died for 13 years because his wife left him and his daughter in that very parking lot.
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