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Submitted to Contest #11
I stand there, in the living room of my childhood home staring. Just staring, because that's all I am capable of doing at the moment. My father walks out of his room. My father who goes to work at seven o'clock every morning. Who teaches my little brother how to play baseball every afternoon when he gets home from a long day at work. Who comes home to his family every night. Who proposed to my mother at her parents' house where they first met. Who isn't catholic, but married my mother in a church because he needed her in his life. Who took h...
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