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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2019
Submitted to Contest #7
It feels like it was just yesterday, my mother, father, and my brothers sat around the table. We devoured the chocolate cake while my brothers and I watched as our presents glistened under the sparkling Christmas tree. This was my tenth Christmas, our tradition was to eat chocolate cake before we opened our presents. My mother’s smiling face glistened by the faint candle light. The cake was devoured within minute. Our family of five never gotten such a treat like chocolate cake, with war on the horizon, money was tight. After we ate the cake...
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