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Weekly Contest #280
I stood on the broken cobblestone outside my childhood home, playing a quiet game of ‘spot the difference.’ The wind slid along the weathered panels; their paint long faded from its fresh coat in July of 2009—when Dad won a gift card to the local paint shop. He pushed me, small and reluctant, up to the highest step of the ladder to lay the first stroke of dusty blue. Mom had sworn off that shade, claiming it reminded her too much of a beach house and that we lived too far from the coast for the seashell-and-waves vision. But dad had a way of...
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