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Weekly Contest #348
The Taste of a Banana I didn’t know it then, but some things never leave you. I can smell a banana before anyone else does. When someone peels one somewhere, I know it without seeing it. The scent slips in through a narrow place, touches a door inside me. As if it has been waiting there for years. The door opens; I am a child again. I stand in the same place. I hide the same thing. My childhood passed in a crowded house. More than one family lived under the same roof. Voices overlapped; no one could quite hear one another. But no one was ev...
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