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Weekly Contest #349
My mother taught me the secrets of the Earth. Now, I use them to survive it. I remember going with her to protests. I used to have pictures of her carrying me as an infant, wrapped against her chest as she disrupted hearings, town halls; she kept one arm free when she handcuffed herself to a tree so she could feed me. The enforcers, back then, would at least hesitate before roughing her up, when I was with her as a child. They started putting me in handcuffs too, when I turned seven. That was her world, a world I didn’t live in for very long...
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