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Submitted to Contest #36
IV - I – MMXXI guess today is as good a day as any to start. Perhaps even better a day than another. It feels that I should write now. For in the last two weeks I have lost eight of my friends in this isolation state the world is in now. So, as a formal introduction: Dear blank and ruled journal, given to me by my family 20 some odd years ago in hopes I might share some present moments and fading memories of my 94-year life, I bid you hello. You have been patiently waiting in the table drawer beside my chair for 2 decades. Waiting ...
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