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Submitted to Contest #161
**THIS STORY CONTAINS MATERIAL RE: HIV/AIDS** She was mature, albeit 8 years old. Her father died and her mother had left her. It didn’t seem she could handle the commitment of a sick child or even the emotional demands of being a mother at all. A single mother at that. Sure, Shay hadn’t had it easy but what about her daughter? Grandma Pat was who Jess sat with, as she waited in the packed children’s emergency room. “Thank god for good healthcare here in Canada,” Pat muttered to Jess. You could smell the vomit off the child’s swe...
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