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Submitted to Contest #234
It’s a funny thing. Time. The extent to which we keep track of it, hold it in our hands as a measure of our successes and failures. When we are young and naive, time stands still, creating barriers we are always pushing up against. We are five years old and yearn to be ten; we are ten and yearn to be teenagers. When we finally reach the awkward years of acne, body odor, and braces, we wish, to yet again, be older. Sixteen. We want to be sixteen so we can drive. Because time becomes a measurement of freedom. And then, we want time to go faste...
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