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Submitted to Contest #26
I had an uncle who was a strange man. Alone, distracted and strange. Always keeping to himself and speaking rarely, he was none the less very dear to me. Some of my fondest memories are of him and his kind eyes, smoking a cigarette and reading to me when I was young. Or when he would play his favorite guitar, finger picking his nylon strings and looking off into the distance as if he could somehow see the song he was playing. My grandmother had played piano and there was always music in their house as he was growing up. My father told me abo...
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