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Submitted to Contest #3
“Mommy, will you read me a bedtime story?”, are words I’ll never hear my daughter say. I reach into the kitchen cabinet and pull out her sippy cup. As I pour her warmed milk into the only cup she’ll drink from, I imagine what I will do when it met its last day. Scrolling through a plethora of websites, only to find OUT OF STOCK displayed across the screen. I know the inevitable will eventually happen and I'll no longer have it, and I don’t have a replacement. I imagine it crushing under the weight of my hands, disintegrating into yello...
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