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Submitted to Contest #43
All families have secrets… don’t they? Despite having a relatively normal childhood, Hayden often wondered if there were things that his family never told him about. Beyond the normal things that parents didn’t tell their children and the children didn’t want to know about, that was. It was his mother who seemed determined to not speak of whatever it was, but his father never questioned her weird behavior… or maybe it was only odd to him. Like… why was she so vehemently against him joining the band this year, especially when she found out th...
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