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Weekly Contest #46
When I was 17, life was far from ideal. Home was not the safe haven it should have been, so I stayed just long enough to graduate high school. College, of course, was nowhere on the horizon. I loved writing poetry and short stories, using them as others might a journal. But regardless of how writing would have made a wonderful career, staying alive was about the best I could do. Truth be told, I couldn't have written a book if my life depended on it. I tried to use songwriting as a substitute; my guitar had become my best friend. But that wa...
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