Alex Nicolae

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“How Do We Tell Them All?” by Alex Nicolae

Submitted to Contest #271

There’s not a lot I learned from my Dad. He was gone a lot. Work, he said it was, when he even bothered to explain. What I did learn, however, is an impeccable method of observing strangers. We would sit on a park bench, eating a bare bagel with frozen fingers and just look at people. This small thing, this insignificant way of spending time together, meant the world to me back then, and for right measure. He and mum were the only people I saw, the only people I truly knew. And I hated them. So much. I considered my mum vulgar and disgusting...

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