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Submitted to Contest #281
Perfection should not exist theoretically. But against all forces of nature, it did, and not only did it exist, it lived and breathed in the body of Cyrus Egner. Cyrus was the sun. Everyone around him were mere rocks that orbited his presence. Everything about it was infuriating. But even more frustrating was the fact that I could not hate him for it. I was only 6 when I first met him. My mother had been making Tamales in the kitchen, and I had clung to her legs, begging her to let me try as well. Someone had knocked on our front...
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