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Submitted to Contest #255
The Jack Daniel's bottle nearly slipped from Althea's numb fingers as her heels dug deep into the sodden ground. "I'm not sure which is worse. The fact that you are gone, or the fact that I didn't get to tell you to your face how you ruined me." Today was supposed to be a day of celebration. It was a day that Althea had been waiting for since she was old enough to leave her broken home and live thousands of miles away from the toxic cloud that was her mother. She waited for the day she got her brother's call that the wicked witch was finall...
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