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Creative Story : A Short Story

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A ten year old girl stood still and confused in front of a slowly falling casket. The sorrowful sound of her mother’s sobbing scared her. She didn’t know who they were burying but she knew it was someone her mother loved dearly. Little did she know it was a man by the name of William whom she’d come to know as her father. Her mother described him as a tall, handsome man with brown hair and blue eyes. As soon as her mother said this she knew where she got her stunning physical appearance from.

The morning after the funeral, Elizabeth woke up to her mother going through a couple of chests in the attic crying her eyes out. She ran to her and gave her a hug. When Elizabeth looked in the chests she found letters, journals, pictures, and uniforms. All by which she was confused by. In the pictures she saw a tall man that looked just like her. Who is he, she wondered. She was determined to find out who he was, but when she found out, the truth was too much for her.

She ran into her mother’s room yelling and crying, “How could you! How could you keep this from me.”

Her mother lay in bed looking at her with a puzzled look. Then she realized what Elizabeth was talking about when she saw her holding the picture and journal from the attic. She immediately got out of bed and said, “I can explain.”

“Explain what mother, that you hid my father from me my whole life! You know what, the worst part is that I had to find out all by myself after he died. Ugh! You are unbelievable!” she

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