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Title: what you can't unsee
Date: May 20, 2016
By: Payton LaRock
City: Ogdensburg
State: New York
Age: 16
Grade: 10
There is a little girl hiding in a closet, seemingly worried about the outside world. Possibly even worried about her family life, more specifically her parents. Her parents fight constantly as she fights herself to understand how to perceive the situation as a whole, yet she can't figure out why they still say "I love you" to eachother as they leave for work in the morning. In order to get away from the fighting, she goes into her "clubhouse" which happens to be a closet where her parents unknowingly fight in front of her. She sees what the real world is like, how people act. She takes all of those details in and the gears start turning in her head as she makes observations on what she is growing up around; what she observes to be "love".