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Weekly Contest #300
Mia never understood why her principal told the starfish story every year on the first day of school. She heard it seven consecutive Septembers until she finally had a theory as to why he chose the starfish story for his annual start of the school year stump speech. Standing tall on stage like an opera star about to begin his aria, he’d smile at all the teachers from behind the podium, tap the microphone a few times until it echoed throughout the auditorium, and then he’d start. “A young man zealously runs along the beach with hundreds of...
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