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Submitted to Contest #58
It seemed like a good idea at the time. My junior high derelict buddies John, Willie, and I used to hang around by the ravine where the train came through. In those days, the middle of the 1970s, there were no fences, and if someone got themselves hurt or killed that was their problem. The spool of cable was just sitting there at the edge of the construction site and we were all pretty sure they were done with it. A lot of our neighbors had made picnic tables out of the giant wooden spools left behind like that, it was understood that they...
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