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Submitted to Contest #274
It happened in the middle, as most defining events do. In the middle of my incoherent divorce, the middle of a major depressive episode… in the middle of October. My best friend Sam and I were almost a decade apart in age, but I was born October 20th and she the 21st. For years we’d marked our birthdays together, but this year it felt almost imperative to celebrate. I was still suffering the aftershocks of divorce after fifteen years and three kids… Sam was in the worst throes of a years-long depressive episode. We were both laughably poor, ...
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