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Weekly Contest #61
I used to help my father clean the shed once a week to earn an allowance of ten dollars. It wasn’t much, but I was grateful for any small amount of money to put towards a new videogame or mechanic airplane parts. At least Dad continued my allowance--and it gave me something to do. Before my days in the shed, I helped Mom at the flower shop and did my best to educate customers on the best flowers according to the occasion (flowers, as it turns out, are my favorite pastime). Unfortunately, that all stopped when I was thirteen and Mom packed h...
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