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Weekly Contest #232
LIGHT-KEEPER By Rigel Rae My name is Marta. I live in a village very far north. A watchtower stands guard many miles away, at a mountain pass. For three months out of every year, someone in my family stays in that tower, to keep a light at its very top. For those three months, winter is at its most brutal, and there is no sunlight. The tower was built many centuries ago as a way to help traders and travelers over the treacherous mountain pass as they made their way to and from our village. My family built that tower, and now my family kee...
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