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Submitted to Contest #319
“Would you like a cookie, love?” The lady in front of me has crinkling eyes and a gentle smile as she bends down and hands me a chocolate chip cookie, my very favorite. I am four years old, in the yard behind the old church on a Sunday morning. In her other hand, she has a plate full of cookies, which she presumably will hand out to the other kids scattered around the churchyard, patiently waiting for their parents to end their conversations and load them in their cars to go home for Sunday lunch. I stare at the plate of cookies, pinning my...
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