Property

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Year 1974 Day the first Monday of January "the day of the announcement"

"From 10 years from exactly today and forward, all women are property!" The man announced

"What do you mean? Does that mean that they can do whatever they want, and I won't have a say in it!?" One women shouted

"Yes, that's exactly what I mean." The man stepped off the stage,and someone else, a skinny man, stepped on the stage and grabbed the microphone

"Everyone will have,  one son, and one daughter. So if you have more than one son, give one up to the adoption care, if you have no children take a son and a daughter. This will also help with the adoption. After these 10 years, in 1984, you and your children will be killed if you have too many sons, or too many daughters, or not enough sons, or not enough daughters. Yes you can file to not have any children if you are scared of this, but you will have to explain a reasoning. Every relationship MUST be a man, or a woman. If you classify your child as a female, then they are female, have to go to female schools, have to do what every other female does. If you classify your child as male, then they will do everything the male does. Every male has a female, and once the female turns 16, they will be assigned a male, one to two years older, or one to two years younger, not over two and one half years older. Any questions?"

A man raised his hand

"Yes you!"

"What if you kill your partner? Like because now I can beat her right?" Everyone looked at the man in shock

"How could you!"

And

"That's not okay!"

Filled the area

"Settle down." But the people continued

"SETTLE THE FUCK DOWN BEFORE I KILL ALL OF YOU!" Now he had everyone's attention

"You cannot, kill your partner. And please don't beat them, I mean, you don't have control over them killing themselves." The man laughed at his own words, and it left the crowd with mixed emotions, so happy, happy for they could kill themselves, and not be stopped because their partner said so. Some mad, mad because they wouldn't be able to either stop their partner from killing themselves, or they couldn't kill their partner. And some sad, sad because they knew that the only way out of the abuse that themselves, or someone they know, wouldn't be stopped, and their only solution would be to kill, kill themselves, for they can't carry on like this

"Any more questions?" There was only one person, and that person was a kind college student, who was in college to become a veterinarian, in a local pet shop

"Yes, you."

The young lady cleared her throat, for she was sort of far away, and would need to speak loud

"Sir, if I am married, will I be put into a different relationship, or will I stay in mine?" Everyone looked at her, like she was crazy for asking that

"You will stay in your relationship, and people who aren't married, will be partnered up. That was a very good question, any more?"

The old lady who basically lived in a hospital raised her small, weak arm high

"Yes, you ma'am." He paid respect, probably because the old woman was in her early hundreds

"What will you do, if your on your death bed? Or are in a senior centre?"

"Well, you just keep living your life normally, your no property, your just living your life to the fullest." The woman smiled, and took another sip of her water

"Well, anymore questions?"

A 17 year-old boy rose his hand

"You."

"So, like what if, like the man like, died, like then, like what would she, like do?"

"Well, the woman would be sent to a centre, where she, and if she has any, son and daughter, will live, until the woman dies, and the children are sent off to their partners."

"What if the woman dies?" Some person shouted

"Then the children will be sent to the centre, and the man, will be sent to a different one."

"Will poor families be paired up with other poor families?" One of the homeless women asked

"No, rich people will be paired with poor people, so that nobody is poor, also, if you do become poor, the government will give you money."

There were no more questions that people wanted to ask

"You will be getting a paper, tomorrow that will explain everything to you, and you can go to our building on XXXXXX st.
at XXXX for anything that you want, or need to know. Now go home. And remember, 10 years till this all starts. Now leave!"

The people scattered out of the streets, frantically wanting to go home, and probably process everything that they were just told. Some going home, and crying because their husband/wife is not going to their home, but to some other persons. Some happy, because they didn't even need to listen to any of that, because they are moving anyways. And some mad, mad because they got pushed onto the curb, and scraped their knee, and it really hurts.

But the 5 year old Mrs. Kim, didn't understand why she now couldn't play with her friends because they were if the male gender, she didn't understand why mommy's bruises got worse and not better, she didn't understand any of what was happening untill 11 years later...