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Weekly Contest #365
Long before he ever walked into my life, love had already taught me its first lesson, and it was not a gentle one. I was fourteen the first time I learned what it meant to be crushed by love. I did not choose that lesson. Someone older took what was never his to take, and left me carrying a child before I even understood what had happened to me. That was the first funeral I held for the idea that love was safe. I buried it quietly, the way girls that age learn to bury things, and I told myself I would grow up faster than the wound could foll...
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