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Submitted to Contest #260
"Sweetie, it’s time to get up!” My mother calls. I roll over lazily, covering my head with the duvet. The sun cuts sharp and bright through the blinds. The inviting smell of coffee and bacon wafts from the kitchen. It’s Saturday and I cannot imagine why I need to wake up, but I obey, squinting in the light, and pad down the hall. My mother is scrubbing eggs off a pan in the sink, already cleaning before breakfast has been touched. No one is looking, no one asks her to do this, but she always wants things to be perfect. She doesn’t want...
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