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Submitted to Contest #327
It was just a book, he told himself. Not even a good one at that. Jean had hated every second of it. Yet out of his whole shelf it was the one he reached for the most. While the other books watched and collected dust, rotting and yellowing, Jean only cared for one. It was just a book, he told himself, when he found the torn pieces of paper strewn across the floor. Not even a good one at that.He remembered the terrible stupidity of the book, his memory was not the problem. He remembered hating the way the author spoke, the way she told the st...
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