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Weekly Contest #5
The Dennings family moved into our cul-de-sac back in July, but we rarely see them. There was a tall, gangly boy about my age, who must go to private school because the only times I’d seen him outside, he was dressed real formal. His father was a burly guy with a thick beard, like a wild creature that somehow wandered into suburbia. I thought the wife would be a wild card, but she actually looked like the other mothers in the neighborhood. Even while pregnant, she was petite, so petite that I knew she would attract only jealousy from the omn...
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