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Submitted to Contest #59
Michael never defied his father until the day his father died. You made your bed, boy, and now you have to lie in it. Michael thought about the words of his dead father while trying to figure out a way to avoid the tepid conversations among the congregants from his father’s funeral now talking to each other in awkward exchanges in various different rooms of his boyhood home. The bird house hung in the tree outside all of Michael’s life. He never thought much about it until some days after he was tall enough to reach it himself.&n...
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