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Submitted to Contest #189
It was so terribly cold. Snow was falling, and it was almost dark. Being in the woods in New Jersey during the Winter is always brutal. I’m old now and my memory is fuzzy, but I think the year was 1996. The best days of my life. I was a made man. A Capo for the Abruzzo Family. I had respect, power, and any woman in Jersey that I wanted. The world was mine for the taking. My uncle gave me an objective on a Thursday night. I’ll never forget it. A simple deal with suppliers went sour and my uncle lost some money. He needed me to collect the mon...
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