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Submitted to Contest #11
It was hard to see. My wiry black bangs had grossly overgrown and were now uncomfortably poking at my eyes with all the obstinacy of a spoiled child and the wiriness of untamed pubic hair. I peered through this unyielding curtain at the face across from me, just inches away. The summer morning was quiet. Soft shadows of honeyed sunlight spilled through the window and danced across my mom and I, who sat face to face in our small bathtub. I sat on a yellow plastic stepstool while she kneeled, scrutinizing my face. Her forehead was furrowed ...
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