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Melissa Sparacino

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Called Back Home

Submitted to Contest #51

I had always run away from my childhood even before my feet knew how to walk.  I did not want to end up like my father, a fisherman who barely knew what the world was beyond the outskirts of our small rural town.  Our home was small, three rooms that my mother had managed to make into a kitchen, living room, 2 bedrooms, and a bathroom.  She was talented like that though at the time I never gave her much credit for it.  My sister Kalli was 4 years younger than me.  She chased me around the house with those dark eyes t...

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