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a fetal position, desperate

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s hurled down at me slipped through, dirty slurs hack

ked the wounds on my skin, patches of blue-black coloring my skin like sp

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along with the stares and their

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g out the sand that got into my lips. Cleaning my lips

is place, which had become th

groaned. I shouldn't have sta

difficult. Every breath I took pierced into my lungs, they didn't even hold

pping my head, avoiding the scrutinizing gaze of the passerby. I have to move, go ho

t the thoughts hovered in my head: what's the point of holding

stepped into path. Vibrant flowers by th

. My shoulders slumped in relief; it

's g

glow on the floor, my parents stood next to an elderly man

the conversation halted, laughter died

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but on the familiar ba

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us. You will no longer be

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at moment, to me, it was as if the sky

but my father's eyes were like ice, cold and u

. Just then, the door creaked ope

?" Her face the perfect bl

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honey?" said my uncaring mo

ifferent father placed his arm o

ruises ached, my knees

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n was like a dag

he kn

to mine, a smirk c

Dad, I'll go in soon." tilting he

shoulder, revealing a sight that shot at my al

up in my eyes

as over it bu

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