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Submitted to Contest #319
Paige stood in the hallway hugging herself, staring out the window at a large red leaf stiffly stirring in the crisp breeze. She had been watching that same leaf for several days now. The sole survivor of an unusually frigid Autumn. Each day she arrived to work, expecting it to have blown away. It stayed on, though, stubbornly clinging to the otherwise bare branch. Paige had begun to identify with that leaf. Perseverance despite a hostile environment. Unnoticeable amongst the crowd but stark now in its loneness. It was only 12:22 PM but it ...
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