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Weekly Contest #22
It was December 31st, 1969. I was 18, and I had just finished my shift at my father’s grocery store, where I had been working for the past five years ever since my parents died. It was 11:14 PM when I stepped out into New York’s frigid winter. My exhaled breath froze midair as I felt my bones shiver and quake inside of me. I wrapped the strands of my worn winter coat tighter around me as I trudged through the inches of freshly fallen, icy snow. My shoes, barely with a sole, were handed down to me from my brother, 14 years my senior. He was c...
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