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Submitted to Contest #316
Can you keep a secret? I can’t remember a time before I met Jackson. Down the road, same neighborhood, same pre-k class, everything. He was just there, right from the beginning. Shaggy blond hair, chubby little toddler cheeks, and an inability to take no for an answer. At first, I didn’t quite like him very much. But he was like a barnacle - stuck to me like glue, and a pain in the ass to remove. I couldn’t get rid of him, no matter what I did. Once, when we were little, I kicked him in the shin when we were playing football. I had acted li...
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