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Submitted to Contest #196
Voices Jean stepped onto the verandah of the weatherboard cottage, frowned at the squeaking floorboards, shook her head at the fragments of glass strewn here and there, remnants from the broken window. The cottage held her memories, of the Grant family, who lived on one side, and Josie Jones who lived on the other, of paddling in the murky, brown river at the end of the street. A lifetime ago, before the illness which wrenched three-year-old Lizzie from the family, and left her, seven-year-old, Jeannie not understanding what had happen...
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