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Alycia Morales

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Crumpled for Life

Submitted to Contest #240

On a particularly blustery day in New York City, a young man of no more than twenty years strutted down the sidewalk on his way to class at the university. The cold wind whipped at his cheeks, turning them a rosy red while his conversation with his father the previous evening replayed in his head. Your younger brother received word of a promotion in his construction career today. When are you going to start earning a decent paycheck? Art isn’t going to pay the bills. It’s a hobby, not a job. He never had approved of him attending college. Le...

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