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Submitted to Contest #69
Marilee's first memory was that of her nanny, Leah, picking her up and embracing her with all the love she could muster up. Leah had told her then that her parents would rather be the ones holding her but that they were too busy with work so Leah was the luckiest gal in the whole wide world to get to spend time with Marilee. She was constantly reassured that Leah was here because she wanted to be, not because of the money, though even as a young child, Mari knew that if Leah wasn't getting paid she would not care for her for free. Marilee'...
Submitted to Contest #60
Seventeen year old Samira had never found it hard to be alone no matter where she was. Whether she had been in school - she would find a corner with a book and read. When she was at home, she would go outside and enter the woods behind the house and find a tree to climb up and spend hours there, reading, thinking and listening. She would sit at the dinner table with her parents and her two year old brother, Tootie, and daydream through their conversations. She must have daydreamed right through the talks of what to do if zombies had taken ...
Submitted to Contest #28
In my mid-twenties I was very active in the rooms of Narcotics Anonymous with going on 3 years clean and working as an admissions coordinator at a local drug and alcohol treatment center - I was blessed with more than the average newcomer’s 90 and 90 on a monthly basis. I discovered soon after I got clean that addicts like to replace their drugs with hugs. Well, not hugs necessarily but that’s how it begins. I had already divorced my husband into the rooms and had 2 relationships with co-workers who were also recovering addicts (granted they...
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