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Submitted to Contest #212
Dwayne was the one who told me Loretta was dead. He sent me a letter scrawled on three sad pieces of paper torn from a crappy dimestore notebook. The letter was covered in pizza grease and Kool-Aid stains, and the first two pages were nothing but poorly punctuated ramblings about his sad-sack life. The last page was about Loretta, and even though grease had worn it translucent in spots, I got the main point. It went something like this: three months ago Loretta died a sad and pathetic death. For the past twenty years, she and Dwayne had been...
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