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Weekly Contest #166
Billy has been taking care of his son by himself for the last eighteen years. Ever since his wife passed during the child-birth of their son Bobby. Billy was a successful lawyer that did very well for himself, and when Bobby was born he decided to stop working and put all his focus into his son until the day he leaves home. It’s the day Billy has been fearing time for the young man he had raised to be on his own in college and Billy now having his house to himself didn’t know what he would do. Bobby since his dad was feeling blue so he told ...
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