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Weekly Contest #329
The AnniversaryThe creepy old house in my childhood neighborhood is still there, outlying at the edge of a wooded area. It is a one-story, flat-looking building that, even back then, seemed too old and dilapidated. Kids used to say that an old man who chain-smoked and had emphysema hung himself from a rope at the open front door of the home. When I was young, I never saw the old man up close, but my older brother and those in his age group did. They were afraid of him, since he used to chase them out of the street block, holding a .22 huntin...
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