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Weekly Contest #271
“It was the summer of 1981, June 23rd, I remember the date, it was the first time I had ever seen my brother cry. I was 10, he was 14, and back then, 14-year-old boys didn’t cry. Nobody told me why he’d been crying, but I overheard my mom talking to him ‘quit crying’ she said, ‘this girl isn’t worth it.’ My mom had then come out of my brother’s room, I scurried away from the door pretending that I wasn’t listening. The look my mom gave me meant she knew I was. I’m 53 now, and when I think of that day all I can say is, that must have be...
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