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Weekly Contest #278
I got up early one Sunday morning in the fall, got my coffee mug and held it while I stood looking out the window at the leaves starting to come down. It was a breezy day, and it was starting to become colder. My husband Todd and I had been married for 5 years and we lived in a suburban neighborhood in NY State with our two small children, and we had a ranch style home. Our home was in a highly wooded area so we would get mountains of leaves every fall and I sighed thinking about all the work ahead raking and bagging those leaves. I turned t...
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