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Friday, October 22, 2010
Experiment 1: Flash Fiction
She kissed a stranger at a party and, for months, beat herself for her drunken behavior. The horrid memory of the silhouette that tormented her faded, and one fine day, she met the man of her dreams. Here was the man she was going to spend the rest of her life with. Her heart felt lighter and the past stayed utterly buried, until she met the silhouette--her boyfriend's mother.
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