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Weekly Contest #352
The color of December was always grey. I lived most of my life seeing grey, and for 21 years of my life, this lack of vibrance constantly degraded my existence. I had never enjoyed the Christmas season, and more importantly, I never enjoyed winter. Life felt much more empty then, and I believe it was due to the color of everyone's lives around me, except mine, inevitably reminding me of my dull gradient of a lifestyle. The Manhattan streets would be littered with damp white snow that would transmute into black sludge the following week. Snow...
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