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Colette Manaloto

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The Red Robin

Submitted to Contest #199

June 2nd, 1999: I had just moved to Portland. I was trying to get away from my past, from all that had attached itself to me. The pain was something I no longer could bear. I just remember sitting on the bathroom floor of my New York apartment feeling my damaged soul cry from within. I remember how numb such pain had made me feel as I had laid amongst the cold, wet tile for nearly 3 hours with a sense of loneliness beginning to linger upon me. It was then when I realized I must leave it all behind as the string that once attached me to him h...

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