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Submitted to Contest #329
My alarm goes off at 6:40 a.m. like it does every morning, Monday through Friday. Like most 17-year-old boys do when they wake up, I yank my phone off the charger and put the bright light of the screen right up next to my face to unlock it with Face ID. I have no notifications, but that isn’t surprising. I don’t really have many friends, just some acquaintances in class and some guys I game with online, but I haven’t ever actually met them in person, so I don’t think they count. It doesn’t bother me too much that I don’t have many friends, w...
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