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Weekly Contest #51
Everyone tells me that Mama’s gone. They never agree on where, though. Grandma always says that Mama went to “a good place.” She never gets any more specific than that. If I press her for details, she gets this look on her face where her eyebrows bunch up together and her nostrils widen and her lips go really, really thin. Once, I asked her if Mama’s dead, like Freddy from Knotts Street who got pushed into the river. Her face went pale and she blinked quickly a few times, but she didn’t cry. She just repeated that Mama was in “a go...
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