Stegger: A Short Story

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“I remember when the first news article came out about Stegger” Marco said to Mary Anne in a low tone of his voice “It was on a Saturday in July I remember that day being bright and shiny and then,thunder clouds and darkness occurring when you read that day’s news article, his name wasn’t Stegger at the time ,nor did he have blonde hair! But just remembering what happened that day must have destroyed his parents.Knowing that their one and only child is gone,gone forever”. “But now,it’s all different, he knows that we are his birthparents now” Marco says MaryAnne while pacing back and forth. “But don’t you think he will notice when he gets older, while his mind is fully developed” MaryAnne says with a shiver in her voice, “What are you trying

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