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Chapter 6 Request

작가: Hold Your Horses
I stayed up until midnight, and my father finally came home from work. I went to see him, my luggage in tow. There was nothing but crude, out-of-fashion clothes inside. My grandfather gave them to me the day before the Marlins found me.

When the town's girls passed by our home, they laughed hysterically and called me a bumpkin. My grandfather heard that, and he was quiet for the longest time. And then he went out alone.

When he came back, he was covered in cement, but he was holding a black plastic bag carefully, like it was some sort of treasure. There was not a speck of dust on it. He asked all the ladies around about the latest piece and carried a lot of cement just to make enough money for this.

"The other girls have this. There is no way you're going without one, sweetheart."

…

I wiped my tears and stuffed my suitcase with my underwear, sipped it up, placed it by the door, and knocked on my father's study's door.

"Come in."

I went inside. "Dad." I stood in the corner, stari
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