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Submitted to Contest #47
You started off humble, a seed in the ground. Speckled by a flying beak and eroded into the moss-green soil. You waited in the darkness, starved of nutrients and starved of knowledge. You didn’t even notice your coat splitting till you saw light shimmering through cracks in the crumbly ground as you emerged as an embryo. You enjoyed the company of the Sun and welcomed the Rain. Preferably though, you didn’t want to befriend Winter that came and killed many of your neighbors. You gaze upon the delicate flowers blooming as quickly as retractin...
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