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Weekly Contest #275
Christmas came and went, and my Cathy still hadn’t come home. I waited and waited, but the house stayed empty. Apart from me, of course. I’m always here. A month before the holidays, Cathy had taken a nasty fall. After a broken wrist in the spring and a heart attack in the summer, I’d been bracing for winter's tragedies. Yet still, it caught me unprepared. Her body might be 81, but in her heart, she’s still 22, headstrong and endlessly energetic. Cathy’s always been that way, but since illness had gotten the best of me seven years ago,...
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