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Weekly Contest #233
The day she was born had been marked by a long-awaited rainfall. May knew this as it was her dad’s favourite story to tell at dinner parties and to any friend that came over to hang out or sleep over. It wasn’t the rain that made him tell it, it was what followed the rain. “It was an incredibly hot day in August.” He would begin to recount dramatically to anyone finding themselves captive out of politeness or simply the incapacity of leaving. I’ll spare you the details of the story and provide a summary. It was a very hot August (as...
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