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Mary was the youngest of three but that never stopped her from getting into trouble. She was quick to anger and even quicker to get revenge and boy could she hit hard. The sad thing is that it was a learned behavior and she learned it from her older brother Hansel.

Not to say that Hansel was truly, one hundred percent to blame, but it was mostly his fault. The rest of the fault laid on Gretyl.

Gretyl, for lack of a better word, babied her brother. Hansel wasn’t all there the whole time. He was developmentally delayed and acted and thought like a child, despite being well into his lower-twenties. Gretyl acted as a foil for his behavior, being his guide and his voice of reason. Unfortunately this led to her treating him as one would a small child and she never really got past that stage. That meant that when Mary acted out as well, the only one she got scolded by were her Ma and Vati. Since Gretyl did most of the babysitting–as she already took care of Hansel–that meant hat she got away with a lot.

That landed her in detention on this very day, right next to the kid she punched out.

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