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Submitted to Contest #25
He met April in January. The dreary month after Christmas when you’re broke and cold and the only thing to look forward to is Valentine’s Day, unless you don’t have a lover. And Dave was single. Dave was lonely. He was painfully shy, as his mother always said. That’s why you’re a bachelor, she’d added lately, followed by a laugh. Not really a James Bond though, are ya.Nope, Dave didn’t go from one woman to the next breaking hearts. He didn’t have a phone filled with ladies names and numbers. He’d had a few encounters with work colleagues tha...
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