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Submitted to Contest #240
One would think you’d get used to the existential terror that permeated through every waking moment of your life, but somehow it felt acculumalative, like a snowball of shit rolling down a steep hill of even more shit. Mom said I shouldn't worry, speaking another tried and true permutation of “things will work out in the end”, as if it would be more convincing if she used bigger words. I didn’t even know what permutation meant, she said it out loud, unironically, in one of her spiels that passed as “advice”, thinking it sounded good. Dad’s a...
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