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Submitted to Contest #31
Jim would be home in an hour. Margaret stood at the granite island, and began cutting an eggplant down the side into little disks. Eggplant parmesan was the first meal she had ever cooked for him, when they were both twenty-two. Her mother made comments about her technique the entire time, popping in and out of the kitchen from the living room. She never offered to help. “This is your meal, not mine,” she said. “I’ve done my time.” Her dad said any guy would be lucky to have a girl like her. Margaret was tempted to say something about how te...
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