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Weekly Contest #343
MICHAEL AND THE WIDOW LADY. ELK RIVER, CANADA, 1923 Michael Lynch returned from the Great War with sunken cheeks and a face as white as birch bark. He was still pale and scrawny five years later as he sat on the widow’s porch thinking about his dead buddy. He often thought about Jimmy though he never talked about him, and while time had faded many of Michael’s memories, his memories of Jimmy had grown stronger. What Michael remembered best were the nights they spent on look-out duty, thirty yards from the en...
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