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Weekly Contest #319
When Fear KnocksOn a gloomy autumn evening, when the wind made passersby bundle deeper into their scarves and the maples along the avenue traded summer for red and gold, I was born in a New York City hospital—earlier than the doctors had expected. Fluorescent lights hummed; someone whispered; someone else wrote my name on a plastic bracelet that slid loose around my wrist.The verdict was uncertain: “Her heart is weak. Let’s wait until tomorrow. Then it will be clear.”But I survived. My parents named me Emily.From the time I was a toddler, th...
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