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Submitted to Contest #137
Jim is a scrapper, both literally and figurately. Both are critical to his survival in one of Missouri’s most poverty-stricken counties. It is a mild mid-December morning and the couple, as usual, are walking the country road to nowhere. They see him from a distance. He bends over to inspect something on the ground, rearranges a few things, then stands up, takes a few steps forward and leans over to do it all over again. It is a routine seen many times. Over the last two years the couple have interacted with the scrapper numerou...
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