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Submitted to Contest #276
I waded in an ocean of bewildering thoughts about what plagued my fifty-eight-year-old sister. She became brittle, then, cracked. In a frantic race against time, I watched a loving vibrant woman transform into a grotesque, odorous, illogical, frail, homeless person. Always a character that moved to her own beat, years of resistance shrouded in secrecy to signs of life’s hiccups left questions for mysterious changes unanswered. After Beryl found her husband dead on the living room floor, the unsteadiness of her grief took on a darker pa...
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