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Submitted to Contest #103
It only cost one dollar. She’d picked it up on a whim from that popular Japanese variety store, Daiso. It was a shiny, gold-painted plastic cat with a solar-powered waving arm. Noticing them in people’s cars, she’d always thought these cats were so cute. Her best friend from Japan told her that it was a “Maneki Neko” or “beckoning cat”; a talisman of good luck and fortune. Now she had a lucky cat of her very own sitting on her dashboard. As soon as she removed it from its packaging, the cat’s arm immediately started waving. Amused, she...
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