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Submitted to Contest #59
She was not sure what she had expected. Kind words, hugs, warmth of some kind? If there was ever a moment when family should come together, would this not be it? Or maybe she had fallen for the lies that permeated the movies and TV. The lie that family is stronger than anything else and will always come together in the end. Instead, the air was fraught with a palpable pressure. She felt suffocated in the humid waves of stares and whispers, the silence and the coldness. But what else could she have expected? Her father lay in the casket, col...
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