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Weekly Contest #136
The maple-wood box had sat on her dresser for as long as she could remember. It was a staple of her bedroom, the sort of thing that she barely noticed on a day-to-day basis, but that would be palpably obvious were it absent. In her adolescence, she had often delved into its contents, hunting through a disorganized mess of colored buttons, scraps of fabric, and thread in search of one that could serve to mend the tear in her favorite shirt, praying the other children at school wouldn’t notice the patch job....
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