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Susie

My doll Susie was the most beautiful doll in the whole world. She had eyes that would open and close and two shiny white teeth.

My sister gave her to me when she went to Texas. I got her for my 4th birthday. She was made of sawdust and glue, not really very durable. She broke very easily. I dressed and undressed and loved her. Even after the leg broke off, I played with her. My parents were digging a new cistern, a shallow well for holding rain water. The old cistern had given out and as they dug out the dirt for the new cistern, the dirt was used to fill in the old cistern.

Pa and Ma went in the house to eat dinner and I stayed outside. I was carrying Susie around and looked down the cistern. I thought, "Well Susie, you are not in very good shape and maybe you should be buried in the old cistern." I tossed Susie down into the cistern and as soon as I let go of her, I'd changed my mind, but it was too late.........

Susie was in the cistern. I could see her down there, but I could not reach her. I wondered off into the grove and cried for hours. I never told Ma or Pa about it because I knew they would have said, "and a lesson well learned was.....
Think over anything you do, because some things can't be undone."

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