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Submitted to Contest #51
Pendlewood was the kind of place that seemed to exist for the sole purpose of comparison, rendering the general impression of everywhere else hopelessly inferior. Surrounded by its timeless air of haughty confidence, the bucolic landscape zipping by in a dazzling blur behind the glass of the car window, I felt all the pride I'd once taken in being the sole member of my family to escape the rural countryside and make my living in the city shrink and dissipate as if sucked away by a vacuum. It was as if someone had constructed the place with a...
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