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Brenna Kidd-Bania '21<br />
Strength<br />
Arianna Todd<br />
The woeful sky above danced with the sound of<br />
thunder as Ava walked down a dim city street with a<br />
cold, bright red umbrella in her warm hands. She<br />
enjoyed the tranquility of the rain above her as it<br />
landed harshly on her umbrella. The sound of the<br />
rain was the only thing that calmed Ava’s anger and<br />
her hot-headed personality. She thought of the rain<br />
as her shield, a protector, a parent of some sort,<br />
something Ava had never had in her life. It was such<br />
a splendid thing to see--how the harsh rain of<br />
November could calm such a soul as wild as hers.<br />
A chilling, gentle breeze glided across her face,<br />
producing goosebumps down her back, and she<br />
gripped her umbrella a bit more tighter than before.<br />
Ava secretly wished that the wind would brush her<br />
away from the city and her problems. How simple<br />
life would be. Or maybe the rain could just wash her<br />
away into the bay. If it wasn’t for Ava's stubborn<br />
personality, she would have already run away and<br />
accepted her fate, but she was a fighter, a soldier<br />
with so many war wounds.<br />
The shrill sounds of the city engulfed Ava: the<br />
police<br />
sirens, the people chattering about, the far-off sound<br />
of the late train on this very rainy night. You see,<br />
the city buildings weren’t the only things that were<br />
looming over Ava; she had a feeling of longing, a<br />
hankering to disappear just for a day. A vacation<br />
away from her life, if you will.<br />
Once she planned to go through with something,<br />
she would fight until the very end. Giving up<br />
wasn’t in this tortured soul’s vocabulary. Not a<br />
single page in the book which was her life said “I<br />
shall give up,” and it never would. Ever. Ava had<br />
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