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Submitted to Contest #316
I have learned that there are two kinds of secrets. There are the frail, brittle sort—tidbits and trifles that flit from porch to porch on summer evenings, smelling faintly of honeysuckle and fried okra, carried on the easy gossip that keeps a town alive. And there are the heavy ones, like stones sunk deep in a red-clay river: the water of a life hurries over them, sun dances on the surface, and few ever guess what weight lies hidden under all that warm, ordinary light. Mine is of the second kind. From the first day I stepped into the little...
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