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Submitted to Contest #100
It was the early days of October. Classes suspended, I sat idling in front of the dining table. The radio blared the loud reporter's voices as they talked about the start of the monsoon season. One or three storms more to come this month, they say. With eyes half open, I watched as the table filled up with dishes of all sorts. A bowl of yellow chicken noodles with a poached egg on top glared over me as I looked about the kitchen. Sausages and fried eggs, fried rice and hotdogs -- oh, but who could forget the steaming bread in the middle...
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