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Submitted to Contest #38
The sun was out, Jack noted, with the sort of clinical detachment doctors reserved for diagnosing chronic conditions. The gold light of the afternoon sun streamed in through the bay window to her left, filling the room with a cheery feeling. If she strained her ears, she could almost hear the twitter of birds outside. Jack hated it. What use was sunshine when one couldn’t even go out? Her second-story apartment didn’t have a backyard, only a dinky little balcony. Using it required her to shuffle past towering stacks of cardboard bo...
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