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Submitted to Contest #137
Only Five years old and taking care of her 4 and 3 year old brothers, Samyiha wanted nothing more but to go to school instead she's cleaning diapers. Her parents were out for three days straight doing or selling drugs. The days they were home she knew that something bad was going to happen that one bad move would lead to being beaten with a belt or threatened. Nobody knew what was going on, she maybe went to school six times. She didn't know much, all she knew at that moment of being home was that she had to take care of her brothers and ma...
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