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Submitted to Contest #267
Family Ties It was a dark and stormy night… Only kidding. But actually, it was, and that seemed sort of appropriate. She’d always been something of a drama queen, she would have told you that quite happily and been proud of it. It was hard to accept that it would all end before she was fifty years old, in that crisply made bed in the hospice. The dark and stormy bit seemed a suitable accompaniment to her exit from life, somehow. We were all there, my two brothers and my other sister, watching our...
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