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Submitted to Contest #72
I was falling asleep to the lull of the wine on my crappiest-looking La-Z-Boy chair when I heard the phone buzz to the rhythm of someone calling me. “Don’t care, feeling too angsty to talk to anyone anyway,” I remember myself thinking as I closed my eyes in my twilight living room. In hindsight, I should’ve gotten up and answer the phone. If I did, I would have been able to talk with my estranged uncle before he passed away and I may have gotten a more realistic explanation than the one I’m stuck with now. Uncle Dan was his name....
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