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Submitted to Contest #4
My younger sister died on my fifteenth birthday. Not that it was much of a birthday anyways. After the global nuclear winter had ended and people had started to rebuild, there were very little resources for people to live on; there wasn’t enough to save my sister from a curable bacterial infection much less throw a party for me becoming another year older. I’ll never forget standing around her bed with the entire family, watching as she arduously took her last breaths. I felt so powerless. We all did. “I wish we could’ve saved her,” my dad s...
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