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Submitted to Contest #214
If anyone found out this was all my fault, I’m sure I’d be killed. I only wanted a little more time of summer vacation. I learned in the fifth grade this sort of thing sometimes happens in places way up north. Places with polar bears and tons of snow. Places where they could use a little extra sun. Places like Alaska, or Russia, or Wisconsin. Places, that for days on end, the sun never quite makes its way past the horizon. Dad says this isn’t like that. Dad says this is different. Dad says this is bad....
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