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Submitted to Contest #284
I should’ve known better. I mean, my father had turned it into a proverb. “Don’t trust a horse breeder with a Western name.” Oh sure, Nathan Dixon looked and sounded like the real thing. The right number of arms. The right lingo. An accent that was Orbital, not Southern. One-hundred-ten percent authentic. By the time he started using words like “rodeo” and “ranch,” I was too far gone to pay attention. I was going to buy. So it was that I blew my whole savings on a horse that was so bad at being amphibious, I had to keep them in a bathtub all...
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