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Submitted to Contest #276
One The air grew heavy at the nursing home. People come in and out. The sound of the wheelchairs being spread and folded, footsteps and chatter. This air of movement and chaos never bothered me before, but on this particular day it was unbearable. My head was spinning, my throat felt warm and I had never long for the pricking ice cold air from winter. I thought I was coming down with something; a virus, the appendix, my brain has finally exploded with all my thinking. I entered my boss's office and she greeted me with the usual a...
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