Tag: kids
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PICKING UP THE PIECES
She stared at the wreckage. The clean-up task would be huge. Enormous. Gargantuan. Would she be able to do it? Did she have a choice? No one was going to help her. She would have to do it on her own. It was her responsibility, and she had no one else to blame. She stood […]
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THE BIG KID
She thought the days of sewing hastily cut cloth together for Halloween night would be over when the kids had grown up. But how could she resist his enthusiasm? It was one of the occasions when he seemed to find that old spirit she loved so much. Agnes bit through the final thread and tied […]
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ARCH-ENEMY
George bested Timothy in everything. He was better at his sums, better at spelling, hand-writing, reading and tying his shoe-laces. George could run faster than Timothy, was always first-pick at football and had more gears on his bicycle. George always had the best sweets in the playground, the smartest new trainers, the most fashionable t-shirt […]