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Weekly Contest #22
It sounded like war. It sounded like a passing train. It sounded like popcorn. Yet, in a darkened room, a humming humidifier and a creaky rocker muted the explosions of light bursting in the new year. The woman whose tired legs pumped the chair to and fro could be called both a "young mother" and an "old mother". The oldest of her four boys attended the lowest grade in the public schools making her a mother of small children, a recent parent. However, the silver strands streaking her hair hinted that the approaching decade would kick off her...
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