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Submitted to Contest #121
"Thanks a lot," Lisa said when I gently mentioned that she looked like death warmed over this morning. I was half-joking, but she did look a little green around the edges. A wild weekend maybe? Then I spotted her pale neck brandished with purplish-black bruises and knew what was up. She'd come in other days with odd marks on her arms, and one time she had a black eye that she claimed was a result of tripping over a laundry basket. That's an old story. My mother had mishaps in the laundry room more often than I could count. When I was you...
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