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Weekly Contest #324
"Like a fish out of water"By M.C. Madjoucoff My dream was to travel the world. I was in my mid-twenties, tall, elegant, and always ready to learn something new. My parents, both born European, from different countries decided to find their destiny in the States. Mama, French, and Papa, a mix of Bulgarian and Middle eastern, met and fell in love. The one thing I had wished for was they taught my sibling and I to speak at least one language they knew other than English. Alas, the American school system failed us in learning a different langua...
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