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Submitted to Contest #47
You check the time. Perfect. As intended, you've arrived fashionably late. Standing beside the car, you straighten the black suit jacket you pulled from a mothballed closet and then hit the “lock” button on your key fob. “Best get this over with” you mutter to no one in particular, dropping the key in your pocket. Purposeful strides bring you to the door in less time than it took you to say no to attending this shindig in the first place. Arriving late suits you fine. It shortens the time you have to spend listening to a bunch of blo...
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