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Weekly Contest #340
My mom got the superlative, “A smile for every occasion,” in high school. Her father, my Pop-pop, was in the FBI. There’s a framed photo of him, my grandma, mom and two sisters with Herbert Hoover standing in their living room hanging in my own. He met my grandmother late one night, patrolling the streets of her neighborhood with his partner. When they got to her house, his partner sat down in a chair. The seat was warm, so he concluded that there was a man hiding somewhere. He looked in the closet, found the man, and nabbed him.Mom grew up ...
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