Marin Year: 2103
PROULOUGUE
I'm fifteen years old, and I have never been kissed goodnight by my mother. Not once.
You may be thinking; "Why does it matter? You're fifteen, get over it." or, "Is your mother dead? Does she not love you?"
No.
My mother is very much alive, and she loves me whole-heartedly.
The reason my mother has never kissed me, is because she can't.
I'm not the only child who has never been kissed by their mother.
In the world I live in, its not un-common.
At this point you might be thinking; "What kind of a sick world wouldn't let a mother kiss her child goodnight?"
I live in a world where most mothers cannot kiss their child goodnight, because the air is so polouted, and if they don't wear a gas-mask, the poloution will kill them. Now notice how I said most. Its only the poorer mothers that cannnot kiss their child goodnight.
"Why does it matter if you're poor or not?"
Well see, you can buy Air Filterers, and have them installed in your home. They cost about what 500,000 thousand dollars would be worth in your time. The year 2013. The average family now a days, is barely getting by on 5,000 to 10,000 dollars a year. Thats why my mother cannot kiss me goodnight. We can't afford it.
A lot can change in 90 years.
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The Year 2103
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