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Submitted to Contest #120
A Father Lost Grace I was about six at the time. Yeah six. Maybe seven? Either way, it was about fifteen years ago, and mother was in a coma. Okay so, give me a break here. I was six, and my dad just up and says that mom wasn’t ever coming back! Can you believe that!? Who does that!? Right, so on to the story. So, he sits me down under the oak tree in our backyard, on that creaky wooden bench… God knows how that thing is still hanging. He says to me, “Listen, honey.” Takes a long pause. I look up at him, just kind of, you know,...
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