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Don't Stay Out Past Your Curfew, Kids.
There is a legend that floats around South Frontenac. Parents tell it to their children, teachers tell it to their students, brothers tell it to their sisters and children tell it to others. Nobody knows where it started and who had witnessed that event but, everybody knows it to be true. On a cold, harsh October night the wind was hollowing, shaking the remaining leaves that lay apond the lifeless trees to flutter down to the solid ground. All that could be heard that night was the creaking of gangling branches and the wooshing of the crisp October breeze. It is said that on that night a young girl with the name of Rosine Dunkin had ran away from home. She carried along with her a bag which swang along with the wind. She walked down the quiet, dirt path of McGarvey Road quietly singing along with the beat of her small feet repeatedly hitting the rocky ground. She had heard stories of children who had stayed out past curfew and "had never returned" but, she was 10 years old and she wouldn't believe such nonsense! As she walked along stuck in the thoughts that flew around in her tired mind she snapped into reality from a noise she had heard behind her. She looked around only to see the darkness that surrounded her, blinding her from seeing much. She continued to walk along the road headinf towards Battersea Road, a more busier road where she could feel more safe. She carried foward at a hurried pace trying to convince herself that the sound was meerly her bag that swung along her exhusted back. She felt as if the night were closing in on her and she would be swallowed alive within its never-ending stomach. Just ahead of her she could see a distant street light that sat apon Battersea Road. She heard the noise one more time, this time certain it wasn't her bag. She bolted towards the light not even daring to look backwards, she ran as fast as her body would take her. She tried to scream only to be muffied out by the openess around her. Nobody could hear her. She tried to run faster but, before she could, she stopped. She hadn't the power to contol her actions no longer. She was under the control of another person.. another creature. She got turned around to face what she first thought was darkness but as she gazed upwards she soon realized a huge brute shadowed over her still body.. and as the legend has always been told, she had never returned and was NEVER heard of again.

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