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Submitted to Contest #298
I never thought my life would amount to much of anything. I knew, even as a young child, that I would be a disappointment. Not just to my parents, who favoured my younger, overachieving brother, but to myself as well. I was average in school, pulling B’s and C’s where most of my class was receiving A’s. I worked just hard enough in gym class to be unnoticed, but I was never particularly athletic. My mind had a tendency to wander, to only snap back when a teacher called on me, expecting my failure to know the answer. I had two fri...
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