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Submitted to Contest #215
I’m not who she thinks I am. Sure, I’m the guy next door who always gives a friendly wave of hello, the guy who picks up her newspaper and puts it on her front porch every morning, the guy who is always watching out for her. I’m nice to a fault. Maybe it’s overbearing. I can’t tell. At this point it’s hard for me to pretend to be normal. I pull the sheer living room curtain to the side at the rumble of the garbage truck. It will stop at my house first, then hers, giving me the perfect opportunity to talk to her again. I didn’t see her at...
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