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Submitted to Contest #199
I got off the bus feeling heavier than when I got on. The weight of what I was trying to leave behind had caught up with me. I remember feeling relief, weightless even, when I got on the bus but now it was all over. This was not what I had hoped for, but there was nothing I could do about it. I grabbed my lone luggage and crossed the street. The smell of the busy street was new to me, it wasn't like the smell of the small streets in the small town I had just left. This smell was thick, it felt as if I could feel it entering my nose, dragging...
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