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Submitted to Contest #311
In by mid-30’s, I discovered that I had an ability, and I chose not to tell anyone for a very simple (and very boring) reason: Tax evasion. Well, ‘evasion’ might be too strong of a word. I wasn’t using by abilities to generate supplemental income of any kind, so the IRS wasn’t missing out on any money. But, whether you use your abilities or not, having a Human Plus talent means you need to fill out an extra 25 pages on your tax return, and I just couldn’t do it. And besides, my ability was on the cusp of embarrassing with its relative usel...
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