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Farit Akhmetov

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Elite Gymnastics

Submitted to Contest #301

Fred was just a normal boy who did gymnastics at his average gym, and rarely got scores higher than an eight out of ten, which is average, too. Across the street from the gym at which he practiced there was an unmarked building, except for a sign on the door that said “Elite Gymnastics Training Facility.” There was one of those neon signs that said “OPEN” but he had never seen it lit. When Fred passed the building at seven-thirty in the morning, on his way to school, the sign wasn’t lit. It wasn’t lit when he walked home f...

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