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Submitted to Contest #319
I have watched the boy for some days from the other side of the glass ever since I could see again. The farther away he was from me, the better I could see him. Up close, I could see the top of his head or only hear his muffled mumblings from the floor. I had been confined to a dark, cramped space facing nothing and no one. It is what I envision the unknown as being. But a few days ago, I was blinded by the sun, then I was here, watching this family. A little boy, his older sister, and their mother. I have watched families for years from the...
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