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Chapter 6

Author: Never Spring
Mom instinctively wanted to push it away, but the moment her gaze landed on the diary, she ended up taking it.

[May 30th. Today is Mom's birthday. I used the breakfast money I had saved for a month to buy colored paper and fold a thousand stars, hoping to give her a surprise. I secretly placed the gift at the door and peeked around the staircase corner. But... I saw Kelly dump the paper stars into the trash can and even had a dog bite through it.

[Kelly said that Mom hated cheap things. I did
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