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[Complete] Peace and I are strangers grown [Harbor, Beach, and Sea]
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Age: 15 (4 November 1879)
Occupation: Fisherman's daughter
Height: 5'1''
Registered: Sep 2019

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Anne didn't have time for mischief. Get up, clean and light the stove, make breakfast for the family while her father went out to inspect the sea. See her father and brother off, go to the beach, gather enough bait for about two thousand hooks, destroy her back while doing so and freeze to death as her skirt and shoes got wet, return half soaked, see to it that her youngest brother had lunch, skane mussels, meet her father and brother at the harbour and carry home the lines, prepare the lines, make dinner, eat dinner, sleep, repeat. All the women's work depended on her since her sister had gotten married, and it kept Anne so busy, she hardly remembered she existed. She was cold though, permanently cold, and tired, and shaky.

Today, she had been allowed to leave the rest of the baiting to her father and brothers, however. Her father had ordered her to fetch the nets he had left to dry at the harbour. The nets were heavy to carry home, but it was a welcome change to the tormenting routine. She even found that it was warmer than this morning, and that some gentle rays of sun warmed her face.

She almost felt cheerful when she reached the harbour. And then she saw a new challenge and her spirit sank. Anne didn't really know Lottie, but she knew Lottie the way that half the town knew her. Anne had always admired, judged, and been intimidated by her at the same time. All from a distance of course. Lottie had never talked to Anne, nor had she had a reason to. Anne practically had a degree in invisibility.

How she wished she could be invisible now. But the girl was fiddling with their nets. Anne approached. "Erm... Lottie..." she said in a soft voice, as if she was trying not to be heard while trying to be heard. "Those are our nets..."

Please don't dislike now, she added in thought.
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RE: Peace and I are strangers grown - by Anne Ward - 02-04-2021, 06:02 PM

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