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Submitted to Contest #29
Benedict Meyer was an ordinary little girl. Well, mostly ordinary. She was ordinary height, ordinary weight, ordinary brown hair, ordinary hazel eyes, just ordinary Benedict. The one thing about Benedict that was unusual was the fact that she was five, but still couldn’t speak, or some would say, wouldn’t. Benedict understood everything going on around her, she knew perfectly well how to speak, she just never had the desire to do so. Benedict had never had a father, he had left when he found out her mother was pregnant. Benedict’s mot...
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