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Submitted to Contest #28
When my first husband moved out, it was rats that came to call. First, there were some dying under the house and raising a stink. Because we still had young children together, I had no compunction about calling him to come deal with it. A few months later, when the kids were in bed and I was on the phone with a friend, I heard skittering across the rafters in the basement. I ignored it. Then I heard a heavy thump in the bathroom wall. Something had fallen between the drywall in the bathroom and the plywood in the laundry room. I defini...
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