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Submitted to Contest #123
Light shined in from both ends of my attic bedroom as I stood before the mirror doing my best to channel senility and listening to an antiquated reel-to-reel tape player. On the tape I was playing my younger, 25-year-old drunken self on the 4th of July spewing morose gibberish. My costume was an old thrift shop tweed coat, a mismatched orange and green plaid shirt buttoned up to the top, a worn black vest, baggy, dingy gray sweatpants, and a crumpled hat prop to place on the table. I was preparing for a solo performance. I took speech and th...
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