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Submitted to Contest #40
I don’t even know why I’m going to this stupid dance anyways. I have no idea how to dance and I hate it. I literally have zero friends at this school. I just moved here with my mom after my dad’s death. He was a firefighter in our town and passed away in a burning house. Everyone in my town thought of my dad as the hero for saving the family who’s house burned. I couldn’t go out without someone stopping me without telling me how “amazing of a person” my father was. I knew that. But he’s gone now. Maybe it’s selfish of me to want my dad, but ...
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