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Weekly Contest #356
It was a key. An ordinary key. I found it when I was getting your books ready for Goodwill. It was taped to the inside of the back cover of one of your music notebooks and looked like one of those thin, metal keys found on luggage. We never locked our luggage when we traveled. I wanted to, but you insisted it would never deter anyone. You used to laugh and say it would do just the opposite. That if you were a luggage handler at the airport, you would “accidentally” break all the locks you came across, just to see what was so precious inside....
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