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Submitted to Contest #48
I was a normal kid until I wasn't. My mother was all about fairytales, she talked of damsels in distress who would eventually be saved by a knight in shining armour. She would tell me to be patient and wait for my knight to show up and save me whenever I was in trouble. Since I can remember, it has always been just me and mom. I was never a curious kid, never asked my mom about my dad because I knew that whatever the answer was, it would do nothing but hurt her. And if she said that he was dead I would never have a knight to come save me. ...
Since I was a kid, I have always been collecting comics. When my peers were at the Café I spent all my time in the library. My town was very weird. We could not have a comic store but did have a comics section in the library apparently. Being a girl who is interested in comics and skateboarding was like wearing a bully-me target. I liked to call my room ‘The Crib’. Now don’t judge me, but when you have five brothers it affects your head. They were way older than me and were attracted to sports and the female commentators it offered...
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