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Submitted to Contest #165
Where I grew up loyalty was everything. It’s imbedded in the culture there. Written into us like the scars on our skin. You learn early that the lines between love and loyalty become almost indistinguishable in the grand scheme of things. You lived and died by it. In our world it’s us and then there’s them and it’s us we’ve got to protect, at all costs. I think that’s what happens when family is all you have. I thought about that as the judge stared down at me from her seat on the bench. Her brown eyed stare was hard and unwavering. Her face...
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