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Submitted to Contest #326
For far too long I had put off my responsibilities at home for those elsewhere. Now my homecoming arrived not as that of the prodigal son but on a summons of foreclosure. This had been a shock to me, as, to my understanding, the one-room country house was owned by my younger brother. But alas, the lawyer’s message revealed that I was now the sole inheritor of the property. And so here I was, performing a final survey before the family home became that of another. I halted, struck by the stillness of the place. What was once the epitome of my...
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