Leslie Long

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“Mother's Doll ” by Leslie Long

Submitted to Contest #239

Something was really wrong, and Mom won't tell me why. My brain is muddled, and my stomach aches because I can't understand why she has been crying for weeks. But how could I? I'm only nine years old. I'm in fourth grade, trying to learn long division. I don't understand the adult world. I like to pretend the adult world doesn't exist, and then maybe Dad will come home, and perhaps they won't scream at each other anymore.           I've shut my bedroom door, hoping it will muffle out my moth...

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