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Weekly Contest #338
The couple seated at the table nearest to me were fighting. Not loudly. Not obviously. Not in a way any normal person might notice. At that moment, they were sitting in almost perfect silence, save the heavyset man’s occasional sniffling (which, given the time of year, could very well be attributed to allergies). In fact, since they sat down five minutes earlier they had not said a word to each other, and their waiter, practiced in his art, must have picked up on the same tension in the air that I had. He greeted them kindly, poured them ea...
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