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Submitted to Contest #139
“Grow up”, my mother said to me when I was 5. I couldn’t count how many times I’d heard that: the first time I had to sleep by myself in the dark room without a nightlight, the first time I remember falling down and skinning my knee, the first time I begged her to stay with me when she left me in the car while she went into her friend’s house for what she called just-a-minute, (and wasn’t), the first time I asked for a puppy for my birthday, the first day of kindergarten when I was afraid to go through the big doors alone. She probably said ...
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