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Submitted to Contest #22
“Close Encounters of the Brief Kind” Should auld acquaintance be forgot? Harold Baxter found himself answering this question in the affirmative every New Year’s Eve. Taking a match to his cell phone contacts (with the exception of his mother and anyone else he would be burned at the stake for deleting), he was determined to start each year fresh relationship-wise, moving on from past pains and embracing new ones, whether they be of the heart or of the ass. Now, this wasn’t technically a New Year’s Eve ritual, as Harold always waited until af...
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