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Submitted to Contest #108
This cruise was supposed to be a break. A nice thing she was doing for herself to take her mind off everything, to go out and enjoy herself away from all her friends and family walking on eggshells around her. That was the theory, at least. In practice, Margaret was finding that brooding on a nice boat wasn’t that different from brooding in her living room, except that everything was rocking slightly and the air outside was a lot saltier.Still, she tried. As much as she wanted to just curl up under her blanket in her room, she forced herself...
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