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G Shaver

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How a scarf and a history of syncope got me arrested

Submitted to Contest #68

It was cold and my hands clutching the paper grocery bags were stiffening by the minute. The distant honking of car horns and police sirens echoed through the night as I walked, breathing in the frigid air that turned my breath to smoke. I buried my neck and nose into my thick scarf and in the relentlessly cold weather of Ohio, I marched for 30 minutes along the winding sidewalk which would eventually lead me to my apartment. The only thing reminding me I wasn't alone was the eerie streetlights and the occasional shut-in houses along the way...

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