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Weekly Contest #48
From desperation, sometimes, comes the unbelievable. Despair is not always grown from the end of the road, the bottom of the lowest. Despair can grow when your life stretches behind you with nothing at all in it. Nothing at all. She looked at her books sitting on the shelves. She knew there was life in books. True love and far off places. Books held adventures and cliff-hangers, suspense, danger and war. Friendship, laughter and children. All the things that don’t exist in nothing at all. She had read all these books. Some many many times....
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