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Submitted to Contest #28
I glanced in the mirror over the bathroom sink. I was pale and perspiring and my eyes had that look a rabbit gets when it spots a dog running toward it at full speed."I can't go through with this," I said, clutching my cell phone in one hand while pulling at my hairline with the other. I counted six gray hairs. I was only thirty-five years old and decided I was doomed to look like Grandma Moses before the decade was out. "I'm going to text him and cancel. My stomach is heaving and I'm pretty sure I'll never be able to eat dinner."I put my ha...
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