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Submitted to Contest #297
Maria was asleep again. She’d been sleeping a lot recently, despite Frank’s efforts to keep her up. He’d even put Midsomer Murders on. She’d have made a great detective, she always said. If only those bigots down at the station would have taken her in back when she was younger. By the time the world had started catching up on feminism and women’s rights, she was too old and too out of shape. She could barely walk up the stairs without wheezing; wouldn’t have passed the fitness test, that’s for sure. Years of Marlboro Reds and hearty home-coo...
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