The Second Born

The Second Born

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We now live in a world where we have had to start over. The world was too over populated the first time. Now all families are aloud to have a maximum of two children. The first born are privileged. They get whatever they want whenever they want it without consequence. The second borns are servants. They get nothing. They must play down their beauty and skills, and worst of all. They have one chance to live a normal life and if they ever do anything wrong, they go to the Pot where both innocents and criminals alike live and are killed at 18. If the second borns can live through then, they can become servants. If not they die That is until 17 year old Yvette decides to break that system and possibly every relationship she ever thought she had with it.
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