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Weekly Contest #271
I was seven years old when I had my first unforgettable nightmare. It haunted me every night before I slept and crept into my mind during my deepest chapters of slumber. Eyes closed and body still beneath my thin blanket beside my many brothers and sisters, I would shoot upright in the dark hours with tears in my eyes, struggling to divide dream from reality. My vision would eventually adjust to the darkness of the great wooden bedroom, large enough to fit thirty people, the walls lined with twin sized bunk beds, and I would realize that ...
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