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This story contains scenes that are graphic in nature and may affect sensitive readers. This includes bodily harm, violence, and a child's death. “They say the living ain’t never know what it’s like to be dead. But the dead know what it’s like to be livin’”. No truer words ever came out of my Mimi’s mouth before that moment. Even as a teenager, I reckoned that whatever happened that summer out in Rutherfordton County would be my opus into adulthood. My hair had finally grown out from an abysmal bowl cut sworn onto me since I was five, m...
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