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Submitted to Contest #187
Piercing green eyes. Piercing. Maybe that's what scared them away, she thought to herself as she sat in the lonely shelter waiting for her time to run out. She knew that wasn't it, she was just lying to herself. I'd lie too. She'd rather drift away in denial than accept that it wasn't her eyes, her nose, her whiskers... it was the velvety coat that enveloped her. The black velvety coat that kept her warm at night. The same coat that kept them away. Why me? How could I have done something to deserve this if I couldn't even open my eyes. I was...
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