99 word #prompt : Mesh
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“She don’t mesh with nobody!” Audra’s father complained. “Must be yer side o’ the family.”
“Horace, you moron! She’s just like yer Aunt Clara with gettin’ scholarships!”
“She ain’t int’rested in boys!”
“My sister was pregnant at 14,” Audra said. “I’m going to college!”
“Yer 16. Yer ma birthed you at 13, her ma birthed at 14. What’s wrong with you, girl?”
“Wrong is having 4 daughters with 2 children each, and living off welfare,” Audra said. “Try forcing me to be with a man and I’ll call child abuse!”
“Best ta let the renegades go,” her mother sighed.
Its more common than we think isn’t it….
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In my field, I’ve seen far too much of it.
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Hmm!
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My sentiments exactly. 🙂
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It can be so disappointing when the young guns ain’t innerested in carrying on the family business. Go renegade, go.
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LOL!
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This is great and you are highlighting a real issue.
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I’ve seen it first-hand and it isn’t pretty.
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Long live the renegades! It’s a pattern of comfort and security carved from the brambles of poverty. It takes a renegade to get over the thorny hedge and truly establish a life based on actualization, not fear.
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