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CompletedChoosing One Life Over Another
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- English
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- Sleepwalking Peach
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- 9
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A car accident sends the narrator and their brother to hospital. The narrator needs urgent heart surgery, but their mother, the hospital director, sends the available doctors to her lightly injured son.
A desperate plea is dismissed as a demand for attention. When the narrator dies and the news reaches their mother, the family’s favouritism becomes an irreversible loss.
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