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Weekly Contest #22
Maybe Next Year Some people avoid the number thirteen. They don’t get on an airplane on Friday the thirteenth. They don’t’ stay on the thirteenth floor of a hotel, if there is one. Some cross every number thirteen off their calendar or literally rip the page right out. Me, I avoid New Year’s Eve. It’s a reminder of failure and loss. The books I didn’t publish. The job I quit. The weight I didn’t lose. The marriage that failed. The child who no longer plays in the backyard. I’m not sure which came first, but I know all were exacerbated the...
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