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Submitted to Contest #82
I used to be afraid of the most childish of things. Things like the dark or the monster in my closet. Things most children fear because they are unknown. See, I wish I was still afraid of those things. Those were simple. They had a way to fix them. Turning on the light, for example, got rid of the dark. One peek under the bed and you can see that there was in fact, no monsters under the bed. However, since things that we typically see in our everyday life, we aren’t afraid of them as much. A car is responsible for most of the world’s deaths,...
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