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Submitted to Contest #138
One morning, when I was around nine years old, my mother woke me up on what I thought would be just another school day. To my surprise, as I was wiping my eyes, She excitedly asked, "Do you want to skip school today?" This was completely out of the ordinary, but it was not an opportunity I was going to pass up. Back then, my parents were in the midst of a messy divorce, and I think she was looking for a way to escape reality. The weather that day was absolutely perfect. It was the first day after a long, gray and piercingly cold wi...
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