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Titus and I are best known for our resilience. The vast majority of Snug Harbor respects our ability to bounce back from something as tragic as being abandoned. The rest of our little lakeside town, namely the people of the presumptuous Shores, takes pity in our story; the tale of two children left on the rocks of Crystal Beach. Esther Willus found us nestled together among a tangle of seaweed, and she took us home to be raised as her own children.
She claims there wasn't a note, just the soggy diapers we were wearing and a single blanket that was draped over us in a careless act of motherly love. Rumor is that our mother was named Charlotte Bixton, daughter of the famed Reverend Bixton. She was found dead on Rockship Shore with a bullet hole in her chest.
Something about that story seems far from the truth and was probably made up by someone like Tori Hathbury's mother, who is widely known throughout Snug Harbor for her tendency to say things that are completely exorbitant.
Titus, on the other hand, believes whole-heartedly the rumored death of our mother. This is mainly because he desperately wants an answer for everything, and if he can't find reason in a situation, he settles for anything, no matter what the peculiarity of it.
Lately, I've been thinking about my mother often; what she looked like and smelled like. And I've been wondering if the story of her death is true, or if it's a pathetic tale disguising the truth that would more than not wish to be forgotten by this town. I told myself years ago that the year I turned fifteen would be the year I discovered.
And that's what I plan to do.
She claims there wasn't a note, just the soggy diapers we were wearing and a single blanket that was draped over us in a careless act of motherly love. Rumor is that our mother was named Charlotte Bixton, daughter of the famed Reverend Bixton. She was found dead on Rockship Shore with a bullet hole in her chest.
Something about that story seems far from the truth and was probably made up by someone like Tori Hathbury's mother, who is widely known throughout Snug Harbor for her tendency to say things that are completely exorbitant.
Titus, on the other hand, believes whole-heartedly the rumored death of our mother. This is mainly because he desperately wants an answer for everything, and if he can't find reason in a situation, he settles for anything, no matter what the peculiarity of it.
Lately, I've been thinking about my mother often; what she looked like and smelled like. And I've been wondering if the story of her death is true, or if it's a pathetic tale disguising the truth that would more than not wish to be forgotten by this town. I told myself years ago that the year I turned fifteen would be the year I discovered.
And that's what I plan to do.
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