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Submitted to Contest #2
The last thing I want to do is offend you. Or, worse still, for you to think that I'm ungrateful for the gifts that you leave me - those white soldiers which you stow softly beneath your pillows. I'm immeasurably thankful each time I lift your heads with soothing whispers and take one of them. Such a wonder they are, those tiny sticks of chalk which nestle humbly into the palms of my hands. It's what I was made for.Yet despite my gratitude I can't help but bring up this one small, recurring issue which has been mithering – a Britishism I’ve ...
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