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Weekly Contest #47
It is July 27th and you are seven months pregnant. Thankfully, five o’clock has arrived. No, it is not “Cocktail Hour”; it is time to turn on Sesame Street for Zach, your no-nap, three-year-old son, whom you have been playing with since he reset the time on his hand-me-down digital alarm clock, “Gritch, gritch, gritch… at 6:15 a.m., and jumped on your bed to announce, “IT’S SEVEN O’CWOCK,” the permitted time for him to wake Mommy and Daddy. You send up a silent prayer that the robot segment with the “Duh-da-Duh-da-Duh-Da-Duh-Da-Duh” music ...
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