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This has left me with so many thoughts that I am not eloquent enough to express in a comment section, but I wanted to thank you for sharing such a compelling and well crafted piece.

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We do that, don't we? Sacrifice our sisters for our own comfort in a system we don't know how to escape?

But perhaps the subversion of a story is the first step toward freedom. Beautiful story that reaches deep.

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This is a gorgeous piece Bree. Thank you for sharing it. My biggest hope is that the backstory goes, she had seen this coming, she had been practising her swimming, she ends up making it around the corner to the spot where all the other bold ones had swum to before her, then legged it away from the "we", apple polishers. Also gives me a serious pathos poke to even contemplate myself as one of the "we". Lovely job.

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Very fine and despite the 1st person narrator's voice it entirly succeeds as a fairy story - dark and a bit terrifying

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