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Submitted to Contest #322
Maya and I had been competing since the day we met. I was seven, Maya eight, when we first met on the playground and she challenged me to a race. I was the fastest girl in my class so I knew it would be an easy win. To my very frustrating surprise, she beat me. My seven-year-old self simply couldn’t handle the idea of losing and so I challenged her to a competition to see who could jump the furthest off the swings. I won that one, but we both walked away with skinned knees and smiles on our faces. And so our relationship went. We became inse...
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