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Submitted to Contest #73
Never, in all my long years on this miserable earth, has something gone downhill so quickly. Hadn't this been what I had wanted? What I had been looking forward to since I was a mere child? So why did it feel like the end, rather than the beginning? Max had been my boyfriend for just over a year and a half. It was mid-afternoon on Christmas day, the snow was falling softly, pitter pattering like the bare feet of elves on the roof. I stared into those familiar roasting-chestnut eyes, the lights from the tree making them dance a delicate b...
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