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Weekly Contest #25
If a glass is half empty, can you fill the rest with empty promises?It’s a three days after the New Year. She is one of many over the last few days to stand here, surveying the shelves of empty promises deceptively labeled ‘self-help books’. The aisle is pock-marked with gaps of titles destined to spend their days as shelf candy after their owner reads the first chapter. She wonders why she’s here again, eyes sweeping unseeingly across the colorful spines.If a self-help book is an empty promise, is the book lying to you or are you lying to y...
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