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A "Fourth of July" Short Story

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                        The twinkling stars looked down on them as the heavy feeling in their chests never went away. The arguments still replaying in their heads as they tried their hardest not to let the tears fall.                          That heavy feeling looming above them, hiding the twinkling stars and shining moon that studied them. It felt as evil as it felt, making them sick in their stomach. How was it possible that the once peaceful and united family seemed to be falling apart?                         Their minds betraying them as the memory of night appeared in their heads. The last breath and the sobbing all so clear to them as if it all happened yesterday, "What could I have said to raise you from the dead?" father asked quietly as he looked up the sky.                     The stars twinkled back at him, "Oh I can be the sky ever since that July..."                           Everyone followed his line of sight, a constricting feeling as they finally