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Submitted to Contest #95
Last Christmas, I really did give you my heart but I was so oblivious to it that I would need to tell the story about how it happened even to myself. It is probably fairer to say that, last Christmas, I gave you… my… well, for lack of a softer word - my sperm. It all began when I scored an own goal on Christmas morning, in time for the aspirin that put me in a good enough shape for the day. I had spent Christmas Eve with dad and his pack of fishermen buddies. In the freezing blessing that December 24 is, neither the fish, nor o...
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