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Submitted to Contest #49
Pain. I'm counting the seconds until the pain stops. Of course, it's pretty much useless because I'm counting up, not down, since I have no idea how long this is going to take. When I was training for a boxing competition, and I was sore and aching, my grandfather always said, "Pain is weakness leaving the body." If this were the kind of pain he meant, I would be the biggest weakling on the planet. I'm pretty sure this is the kind of pain that just hurts, rather than the kind that makes me strong. Knowing what was coming, I could barely ...
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