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Submitted to Contest #197
When my son was fourteen, one summer he fell into his first real crush with another fourteen-year-old visiting her cousins from another city far away. When he wasn’t at one of his summer jobs he was at the beach with them. On the morning in late August this girl left to go home, she gave him her scarf. A few months later he told me their letters had lasted as long as the scent of her hair in that scarf and he had to accept that there was no future with her. He was fourteen and she was 100 miles away. That may have been the summer her was no ...
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