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Weekly Contest #259
‘OLD GUS’ by Madilyn June Jorgensen Gus didn’t know it yet, but how he drove a car and with whom was about to change – in ways he never expected. “Nothing’s wrong with my driving!” said Gus, sitting at the kitchen table. Carol sighed and looked lovingly at her father one Saturday morning in March. Glancing sideways at her husband, she picked up the empty plates on the table and stacked them in the dishwasher. “Now, Dad, you know that’s not entirely true,” she said sympathetically, Gus grunted as he bit into his toast, muttering to him...
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