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Submitted to Contest #102
It had been almost five years to the day since he had moved away from home. He never liked returning, never really wanted to return. The town was the same, maybe the shop names had changed, a Bakery had become a takeaway, or a Butchers a supermarket chain but it was a different face on the same body. He hated it. It filled him with a sense of dread, of panic, as if he were regressing as a person back to his childhood self. As if the outside world had moved on but he was still trapped here in the past. The cause for his return was that of ...
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