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Life's Purpose

Darby Bogle

Submitted to Contest #181

Eighty-three years. Eighty-three years of struggle and work. Eighty-three long years of exhaustion and pain, heartbreak, and devastating sorrow. Raising babies for them to wrestle with life just to produce more babies to raise. Eighty-three years and this is where she ends up. Irene looked about her in the brightly lit cafeteria where residents of Oak and Pine Senior Home ate their food, if you can call it that. The mush in front of her was supposed to be meatloaf and soft carrots, but the smell radiated that of something dead and rotting. S...

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