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Submitted to Contest #64
If you asked me what my greatest regret is, I would tell you that it’s being angry the last time I looked at my home town. Driving in the backseat of my mom’s baby blue pickup truck, grumbling to myself about Gecko and how she never stopped playing poker with the prison escapees under bridges long enough to hang out any more. I was grumbling about how, ever since she discovered she could hide a reasonably-sized knife under those plaid tennis skirts she always wears, she has barely spoken to me. I remembered when it was me and not strangers w...
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