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Weekly Contest #83
It had been a dismal six months. Just dreary. The separation from Kathy was barely a month fresh, the kids called constantly to ask when I’d be coming home, my job had gotten the best of me; here I sat, a forty-five-year-old shell of what I used to be. Forty-five. I just can’t bring myself to believe that I was on the back nine of my life. Forty-five! My hair is thinner and my waist thicker but I still had life in me yet! Was I really going to let Kathy and the kids and my accounting job be all I experienced on this grim and gloomy planet? N...
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