Jessy: A Short Story

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Jessy never knew her father, as her mother said he died serving his country before she was born. But that never stopped her from feeling loved. Growing up in the south Jessy grew up being a wild child, always climbing trees, riding horses, and playing on the ranch her mother worked for. Her mother was a veterinarian that was hired to work soul for the Kingsley ranch. She had a team of people serving under her, all working together to care for the countless livestock that the family owned.

Jessy grew up happy and well looked after. The ranch hands and Kingsley family pretty much all seeing her as their little runt of a sister running about. And for 10 years everything seemed perfect, even with some of the strange things that happened from

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