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Weekly Contest #356
The sink is backed up. Again. That’s the life we live: a bowl of shaving cream and soap that drains slower than the water we pour into it. I think about yelling for my father, then stop myself. I already know what he’ll say, and the only thing worse than this snail‑paced drain is his slow, deep‑breath lecture.“Patience, beta. You kids nowadays don’t know how to wait. It will go down. It always does.”Then will come the usual flashbacks to the 1970s in Pakistan, followed by the list of things I have that he didn’t. And look — I get it. I have ...
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