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Weekly Contest #352
They say that when I was born, I opened my eyes and saw nothing.Black.That’s how they tell it, like it was a tragedy, like something inside me had failed before I even had the chance to become anything. I grew up listening to the quiet pauses in their voices, the softened tone people use when they don’t know how to speak without sounding sorry. They never said it directly, but I could feel it in the air around me—this idea that my world was smaller than theirs.But no one ever asked me what it felt like to live in it.Because if they had… they...
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