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Weekly Contest #310
I've always been a light sleeper, so even though it was three in the morning, I picked up the phone on the second ring. I was staying at my mom's house next to the diner I was running after my dad's death until I could unload it on some naive dreamer or, more likely, a new immigrant--like my parents were when they bought Chubby's back in 1968. Mom was in the next room and I didn't want her to wake up. She's always been a very light sleeper, like me. My dad could sleep through anything. "Yeah", I croaked. "Who is,,," Mom still had a rotary ph...
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