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Submitted to Contest #337
My phone buzzes, and I eagerly reach for it, hopeful that this time the buzz is coming from a message authored by you. It’s not. It’s a message letting me know that my flight has been canceled. My face contorts a bit, and I can feel the damp reaching my eyes, but I’ve been sad for so long that the tears don’t have the energy to spill out. Nothing that has happened recently has been able to shake me from this fatigued sad state. I fell in like with you the moment we met. I introduced myself as your new colleague, and you responded in introdu...
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