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Submitted to Contest #330
George wondered how his life had evolved to include so many kitchen utensils when a simple spoon sufficed for most of his culinary efforts. Cavemen survived with no more than a charred spit over a sputtering fire. He turned a slow circle in the kitchen and then pulled open the drawer beside the sink. Salad tongs lay behind the tray holding silverware spooning in dividers cut to shape. They had rarely used the chopsticks jumbled beside the knives, and then only badly, before inevitably returning to forks. George shut the drawer softly.Standin...
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