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Submitted to Contest #326
While in line at a coffee shop, I stepped aside in a single, elegantly-rendered act of kindness to let the woman with a screaming toddler ahead of me in line so as to obtain her daily fix sooner instead of sharing in shattered eardrums for all the patrons in the coffee shop. The screaming toddler, to everyone's surprise, immediately ceased its caterwauling and looked in befuddled wonderment at me.The woman also let her eyes linger on me.“He's not mine,” she mouthed silently to me, pointing to the toddler.“I gathered,” I mouthed silently back...
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