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The Woman Who Lost Everything
Her life motto was drink, sleep, repeat. She stumbled home at 3 in the morning singing every day. Then she would sleep till 9 and then go back to the club. Over time, the father started to believe that she was cheating on him. She would drawl sarcastically at him, “You don’t know what you’re talking about”. Unable to get over his theory, he killed himself. She listened to no one and if someone told her something she started telling them how they were trying to control her. She called herself an independent woman. She was such an absent mother that when her children ran away, she didn’t even notice. Bankruptcy. Cancer. Unable to afford treatment, she killed herself.
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For this set piece, I tried to practice making the reader feel how the characters life is without directly saying it. Notice her response to her husband whenever he confronts her of cheating and what she does when she gets diagnosed with cancer. I like how my set piece isn’t happy and boring, it’s dark and depressing.