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Submitted to Contest #261
When I was in my late forties, the men I’d known since childhood began dying – one by one I lost all three of my uncles in a year and a half. Then, in one terrible week, a close childhood friend and my dad (my anchor) both succumbed to cancer. Unable to cope with the enormity of these losses, my mind went spiraling out of control. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, I felt caught up in the eye of a tornado. Everything and everyone seemed to be flying away from me, buffeted by the wind until I was left with only my paranoid psychotic delus...
Submitted to Contest #15
Not bad, I thought as I poured my first cup of coffee for the day and considered my total transformation from high school dropout to domestic goddess, wife of a successful, corporate executive. Together we have worked his way up the ladder, moved into a custom-built McMansion, and had two wonderful children, a son and a daughter.My husband, Todd, had been in middle management at an international accounting firm when we first met. My best friend was his temporary secretary and I saw his potential the minute we were introduced. At the time, I ...
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