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Submitted to Contest #311
They promised to bring our boys home alive by ‘45. But my pa didn’t return home from the war until the summer of 1946. The summer of 1946 was also the summer I lost my mama. It was the summer of Betty Irene. And it was the summer I did something bad. When I was nine, Pa returned home from the war. Just as he was arriving, Mama grabbed me by the shoulders and told me not to tell him. I said, “Not tell him what?” and Mama said “Good girl.” Mama vanished a week later – the same day Betty Irene appeared in our cotton fields. Pa told me the wh...
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