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Submitted to Contest #167
“Do you believe in magic?” she asked, flaunting the wild smile that had bewitched Sean since he met her, earlier that evening. She held out a closed hand toward him, palm up. On her wrist, peeking out from her coat sleeve, Sean saw part of a crucifix tattoo. He didn’t know what she was holding, but he knew that, in her hand and in her eyes, she held the answers to all the questions he didn’t want to ask. Thirteen years later, almost to the day, as the cancer in his bones consumed him, Sean McKinney was to remember that evening he met t...
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