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Weekly Contest #42
It was the holidays. I had arrived in Ohio from my home in California in time for my brother’s birthday, which was three days before Christmas. I had done this every year for the past forty years since I’d left Ohio. Our small family of five, including my sister-in-law, were sitting in my parent’s living room with glasses of wine before dinner. We had pulled up chairs to be closer to my parent’s stuffed chairs, roughly forming a circle as we caught-up on our lives. Rarely would our family bring up uncomfortable events from the past or for t...
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