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Weekly Contest #168
My deceased grandmother was sitting right there in front of me on a train station bench in New York City. The first time this happened I nearly fell backwards onto the tracks, but that was almost a year ago now. I had just moved to New York to escape my hometown and my parents. My first week here I had managed to consume more ramen than any one person should in their entire life, but it was cheap and I didn't have a job and could barely afford rent. By some miracle Mrs Jean, my current day boss, took a chance on a dirty, unwilling, and lazy ...
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