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Weekly Contest #178
When finally, the wick has burnt to the end, I cease to serve my purpose – that’s my deepest fear but it is inevitable. I am a Christmas Candle. I exist in a bright red cylindrical glass cup and from the description on the cardboard box I was packaged in, I apparently smell like ‘Holiday Cheer’ and I really hope that is what I spread when the humans light me up. I know it’s a little silly for me to think that my existence even matters because I am a mere candle…but I like to think that I have served my duty on this world when I have reached ...
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