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Submitted to Contest #104
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. I’ll believe it when I see it.I love them, I do. But almost a year and a half of quarantine and I’m starting to lose it. Dad says we’re fortunate to have so much extra family time. Mom tells me she must be the luckiest mother in the world to have been handed so much extra time with her son.It’s not normal, I think. I sigh, stumble over to the couch, close my eyes. “He doesn’t know how good he has it. One day, he’ll learn,” Dad lectures.“Give him time,” Mom says.I awa...
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