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Weekly Contest #350
ANNA Anna sat quite still in her black, straight-backed chair, the picture of timeless dignity, strength and purity.Anna was an enigma. She was excruciatingly old, so old that her skin should have looked like it had been painted on the back of a dried-out canvas. But it was as fresh, translucent and as free of blemish as her soul. For decades Anna had been expected “to die any day now.” Yes, they had expected it, day-after-day, but year-after-year she had disappointed them. In some ways, Anna regretted disappointing them. She had been r...
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