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Submitted to Contest #298
Just take a breath. What useless advice. You are breathing, breathing just fine. Okay, maybe not fine, since you are close to hyperventilating, but taking an additional breath doesn’t seem like good advice. It’s bad advice, really. If anything, you should not take a breath. And now you’re holding your breath, and that’s not working either and once you start to breathe again it feels so awkward, like you’ve never breathed before in your life and just taking a single breath is making you more anxious and the thing you were doing quite well—too...
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