The Wandering Girl

The Wandering Girl

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It was raining the day I left home for good. My little sister began crying. It tore me apart, but I couldn't stay. She wouldn't have understood my reasons, so I kept them to myself, bottled up deep inside my heart. We were living on a jar filled with paper bills, we had been since dad left and mum drank herself to death with a bottle of Gypsy. I couldn't take the sadness, the melancholy, the memories of living in that house. So I left. Mentally, I had left years ago, along with the trunk full of trinkets mum and I used to collect. I left with all the memoirs of our past, sold one by one when money began running scarce. I physically left three years later, with a suitcase full of clothes and four $30 bills shoved into my back pocket, determined to wander the planet until I forgot.
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My mother was braiding my hair and had prepared my favorite breakfast; honey maple pancakes and bacon. I wore my favorite blue dress and my favorite black flats. My father had prepared gifts for me. They'd gotten me a new bike, a paint set, a flute, and a book called Shallow Waters. After breakfast, mother let me go ride my bike. It was light blue, with a beige little woven basket on the front. As I rode down the hill near my home in the country, sailing by the flowing tall grass, feeling the gravel beneath the tires, breathing in the cool air, all as my dress fluttered in the wind behind me. I had grown up in that home, lived there since I was a newborn. When I returned home, there was a car in front of the house.

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