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Submitted to Contest #268
He stood beside the bed, where his father lay, gripping the bed frame, staring at his dying eyes, as the old man was breathing slowly. He stared at his father intently, with his eyes open wide, as if awaiting something to happen. The sound of his father’s quiet wheezing was accompanied by the sound of a weeping woman coming from outside the room.Though the man by the bed didn’t seem too troubled by what he was seeing on the bed of his father, but rather excited, as if listening to a traveller’s tale and awaiting the end of it.Then the old ma...
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