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Amy Arden

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Off Into the Sunset: My Doomed Love for a Cowboy

Submitted to Contest #28

  When I was five years old, I decided that I wanted to be a cowboy when I grew up. A cowboy, not a cowgirl. I wanted to wear chaps and a 10-gallon hat, not a skirt and ruffles. I wanted to live out on the prairies, eat meals cooked on a campfire, and learn songs that could be played on a guitar as I sang to the cows. I wanted to sleep outside beneath the stars. I wanted to see antelope and buffalo wandering the open plains at will. And most of all, I wanted to have my own horse. She would be strong and beautiful and steadfast, and we w...

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