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Weekly Contest #279
I would be lying if I said I looked into her eyes as I talked. I tried but I couldn't quite do it. Instead my gaze rested just above, maybe in line with her eyebrows, just an illusion of eye contact. "What happened?" she asked again and still I couldn't tell her. There were a lot of things I couldn't do that day. Eye contact and telling the truth were right up there. I knew there would be sadness in her eyes if I dared to look. Maybe not just sadness, maybe devastation, I couldn't face that look, that hurt, the magnitude of it. I dropped my...
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