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Weekly Contest #297
Whether he was conscious was up for debate. I received the news from my mother a day after my father's trip to the ER. It had happened before. He was a chronic smoker, and even after the first time, needing to receive a little metallic device inserted into an artery and bleeding with the tiniest scratch, he still didn't live any differently. Then there was the second time. I barely remember what happened. He returned just the same. So it goes. "I see," I said. "No," Mother said, "I think it's real this time." "You think so?" "Do you want to ...
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