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Weekly Contest #40
As a child, I was quite a fan of fairy tales. Whenever I wanted to hear a story, I would follow my mother around the house, endlessly pestering her to tell me a story. My mother would try to resist me, but in the end, she was no match for the tenacity of a wound-up 5-year-old. Her favorite story was the one about our town witch. This witch, she informed me, had been created by this town’s desire for help of some sort. Our town was a small one, near a lake in a valley by some hills. It wasn’t the easiest town to get to, and was often forgott...
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