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Submitted to Contest #246
TJ Allens sat alone on a swing, slightly swaying, at his favourite park, thinking. His dad had just gotten orders and it was just before TJ was due to start high school. He watched the other kids around him, playing and laughing as though nothing was changing. That life, as he had known it, was being turned upside down. He sighed as he saw his mom walking over to him. He turned his music up a little louder in a poor attempt to discourage his mother from talking to him. Harper Allens sat in the swing next to her son, ...
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