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Submitted to Contest #32
April 17th is an exceedingly average day of the year. No holidays are celebrated on this day. No festivals are held. No momentous occasions of note save for the founding of the country of Bangladesh, which is certainly a big deal to the Bangladeshis. But this story takes place in the United States, specifically in the great city of New York. Even if April 17th were a date of significance, it still wouldn’t matter much to New Yorkers. For Patsy Novack, April 17th was also an exceedingly average day. She spent most of it sound asleep, bl...
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