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Weekly Contest #199
It was midwinter in Jerusalem and I was a fresh student new to the capital, to the crowded dormitories of the Hebrew University. I was allocated a small room in a long, gray, railroad concrete building, one of many identical grey siblings. I unpacked the little luggage I had brought with me in the characterless room, and tacked a poster to the wall to help me feel I belonged somehow. Small as it was, I still had to share the room with a chemistry student, a new immigrant from Germany. I hardly saw him at all on my first week there – he cam...
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