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Submitted to Contest #43
All the time I spent in school when someone mentioned their parents, my thoughts didn't go to a mom and a dad. They went to a now 76-year-old woman. Her name is Linda and she is my grandmother. She adopted my sister and I when I was three years old. My mom is an addict, as well as my father. He was in prison at the time, and she was literally anywhere else. She ended up coming in and out of our lives for years. I spend my time as a little kid just wondering around the house, laying in my grandma's bed while holding her ar...
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