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Submitted to Contest #311
Sensitive content: mental health, allusions to abuse, family conflict. No one had ever taught Hilda how to apologize. Sure, there were words that one might be expected to string together like those paper-chain people so beloved by her second-grade teacher, Mrs. Billock. But those words fell flat whenever they tumbled out of Hilda’s mouth. Despite her best efforts, Hilda had never quite figured out how to then imbue them with the magic that others would receive as sincerity. Perhaps it would have been helpful to witness some of that magic f...
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