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Weekly Contest #369
It was an unseasonably bright spring afternoon. Though it had just snowed, like the April Fools blizzard I was nearly born in, the snow stood sweating in the midday sun. Trash strewn on blackened mounds of ice marked the road. Cars hummed on Ocean Parkway, the whirring leading right to the beach. My dad took a half day to get me after school. If he could wrangle another day off, we might walk around the zoo of Williamsburg’s streets of foreign tourists, stopping to eat too much from cafes that smelled like burnt butter. I was born when they ...
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