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Submitted to Contest #249
Why did I leave so late at night? I knew it would be a long drive into the interior over the dirt road and I wasn’t sure which turns to take in the road. My West Africa map didn’t give that much detail. It was a twelve-hour drive back home to the capital. I was suddenly worried that I’d run out of gas before reaching the district city to fill the tank. If I ran out of gas, would passersby know how far it was to a gas station? If I managed to get to the gas station, how would I get back to my car? Because of thes...
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