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Submitted to Contest #66
Shift to the left foot then the right, kick a pebble boredly. Listen for the grinding of that annoying diesel engine. Tilt head up, straighten lips, shift stance again. It takes a lot of concentration to control the nuances of another person. All of the little ticks that are supposed to come naturally are suddenly as complex as a well-woven spider web. Something even more complicated was the fact that I was controlling my own nuances at the time. As the clumsy yellow bus approached the curb I was standing on, my eyes grazed t...
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