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Weekly Contest #293
When I was a child, I loved trains. Pretty typical little boy enchantment, I think; wooden tracks and tiny metal wheels, a hundred different configurations across my bedroom floor with the train-track pattern carpet. We lived in the countryside, and the trains only ran through the city, so seeing the real thing on a rare outing was like Christmas and birthdays combined. I remember even when I got older that my mother and I would stop at the side of the footpath to watch as they shot over the tracks. I never liked Thomas the tank engine, thou...
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