Carolyn Jacobs

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“Late Bloomer” by Carolyn Jacobs

Submitted to Contest #125

“My kids.  They’re both late bloomers.  What can I say?” Bev’s raspy voice sounds defeated, tired. She turns her head and gazes out the dirty, aluminum framed window.  From her vantage point five floors up, her view is mostly of gray clouds. Her snow white hair, normally soft and fluffy, is flat from too many days on a hospital pillow and too many days without a proper shower and shampoo.  She sighs, a deep heave that lifts her chest, moving the thin hospital gown and jumble of tubes and wires with it.  Difficult...

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