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Submitted to Contest #235
The early morning was clear and crisp. The Jacaranda flowers made their usual pleasant squelching, crushing noise under my feet as I jogged. From the mountaintop that I had crested I could see the entire Tshwane in its splendid coat of purple flowers, heralding in the summer and the imminent examinations for school children and university students alike. I had studied hard and trained religiously to maintain a healthy mind and body and to be best prepared for the coming examination. Exhilaration flooded my body. It was my final yea...
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