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Submitted to Contest #315
THE GUTS TO GET GONE I was born in 1946, in the cabin I would grow up in, just my mother and father there to see me arrive. That cabin is long gone by now, I’m sure, and good riddance. The town we lived in, Sunshine—if you could call it a town—is also long-gone, and good riddance to that too. Sunshine—named that way for obvious reasons—was forever dusty and parched, not much more than a dirt road with the huge hoarding for The Sunshine Bar looming large over everything else, dwarfing the General Store and the barber shop and the two or thre...
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