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Submitted to Contest #286
She starts by putting on her shoes. The ones by the bed look too large, but she reaches for them anyway, thinking she could stuff them with tissues to fill the gaps. She begins to pull out several from the box on the bedside table. The tissues remind her of white camellias. Beautiful camellias in a dozen vases lined along the tables of a crowded funeral parlor, and in a little boy’s suit buttonhole which Betty had adorned with a single bud. “Betty?” A shuffle of feet from the doorway startles her. “Why are you crying?” A woman ...
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