The biggest Independence Day celebration in the area was in
the process of being set up. My parents’ friends and colleagues would bring
their families.
I always wondered if their families were like mine. Perfect
in appearance but twisted and torn inside.
My parents merely used me as a pawn to climb their social
ladders, the “perfect” daughter had to make appearances at their grand events.
In all the years I've lived here, I never once called this
place my home. Home is where people care about you, home is the boarding school
I’d been attending since I was eight.
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I'm curious why Independence Day is significant. Because he or she is independent of his or her parents?
ReplyDeleteGreat character insight, "since I was eight" holds a lot of subtext!
ReplyDeleteso much back story told so well. Nice job.
ReplyDeleteOuch. Poor kid! I like the take you took with this.
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