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Submitted to Contest #171
I’d taken the trip to get away from it all. Since my sister had died, my life had been full of noise. At home, I couldn’t escape her memory, seeing her in the mug she’d left on my counter the last time she’d visited, the roses she’d helped me plant in the backyard, even in the stupid lemon painting she’d picked out for my kitchen. I’d never had the heart to tell her how ugly I thought it was. Ugly or not, it was all her. The third day that I’d broken down crying over something completely mundane, I decided I couldn’t stay. Not in my h...
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