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Submitted to Contest #20
Threes. I count my steps in threes as though I’m waltzing through the halls. I tap in threes, think in threes. On particularly bad days, I speak in threes. There are two-hundred ninety-three lockers in the band room and instrument storage room, not including those used by orchestra students. Two-hundred seventy-one marbles in my collection. I know because I counted them. Three times. And then I spent hours covering every inch of my arm in the...
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