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Submitted to Contest #157
I held up the picture of Sam and his girlfriend and I. I was fresh back in the States at my parents’ place and just days before starting a new job. It should’ve been of those nightlife vacation photos that make you happy. My eyes lingered on it for a minute more before I tossed it into the trash. Nope. Don’t want to remember those adventures with “Sexpat Sam.” But I couldn’t forget that last night together. We were at our usual hangout, at a dive beach bar in Cartagena, Colombia. Surrounded almost entirely by vacationing gringos pas...
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