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A Secluded Meadow
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Well That Was Funny
By Jill Burns
Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when you’d utterly and completely mortified yourself.
~Michele Jaffe, Prom Nights from Hell
My heart thumped as we searched through the woods for my older sister. Concern sounded in my parents’ voices as they yelled my sister’s name. When she didn’t answer, their faces filled with worry.
Of course, my imagination ran wild as I thought of the stories I’d heard over the years about hikers getting lost or even attacked by a bear or mountain lion. My sister and I were in our early teens but had learned to respect the wilderness, and the idea of an animal attack or losing our way still terrified us.
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