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Submitted to Contest #82
I've always been a busybody. Ever since I was a kid, my family told me that I was always thinking of the next thing. "Sometimes you gotta stop and smell the roses, Greg." All of my exes would say the same thing too. My last relationship broke my usual record of 6 months, we ended being together for a year and a half. Way longer than I'm used to, but I was alright with that. His name was Brian. He was very patient and down to earth the first few months. They just...got me. After a while though, he kept asking me where we were headed and if I ...
I had come to the point in my life where everything was just okay. My coffee tasted the same every morning. My wife looked the same, my house, my kids. I didn’t really have anything to look forward to anymore. That’s not to say that I was depressed, but I wasn’t necessarily happy either. When I thought back to my younger days, I couldn’t help but smile. I met my wife back in college and she tried her hardest to get me to act like an adult. She made me get rid of my favorite notebook, she would be irritated when I was excited about the ...
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