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Submitted to Contest #2
It all happened on a chilly night during the Christmas holidays in 2002. Our son, Tim Jr., was a senior in high school enjoying an evening out at a home of one of his friends. It was around 10:00 in the evening when Tim decided to drive down the street to the Marathon station for a Slim Jim. That had always been his favorite snack since he was a little boy. It happened to be around closing time when Tim went to the front door of the Marathon station but it was locked. He left there to go to another convenient store that was about two hundred...
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