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Submitted to Contest #54
SStanding at the airport, just people watching. A skill one must learn, to fit in to a society where rainbow strands of hair fly freely, cowboy hats are strange looking in big cities, and preppies wear their clothing in perfect geometrical shapes to match their curved bodies. Going back to school after twenty years of being away is more nerve racking than trying to find your flight gate with the alphabet going backwards. I stood there staring at my ticket A-35. Shouldn't be so hard. I was at G-10, but running back and forth between gates ...
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