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Submitted to Contest #222
“You’ve got this.” My mother whispered it into my hair, her arms wrapped tight around me while I lay there, tears streaking down my cheeks. My chest felt like it had been blown apart, leaving small pieces of my heart scattered around me, too damaged to fit back together. I knew that I needed to leave. I suppose I’d known that for a long time, the truth had sat like a stone in my stomach longer than I wanted to admit. I’d never been able to bring myself to do it before. I had no other options now though, I needed to walk away. “How co...
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