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Submitted to Contest #238
“I think it’s fair to say we tried—” I started. “But—” He started over me. As my words reached his ear on the other end of the line, on the other side of the country, I held my breath; he repeated, more pointedly this time, “BUT—” His insistence on continuing to speak rather than listen was all too reminiscent of our current and past conflicts, contradictions, contraindications. “Go ahead,” I prompted him, letting my point go. He wanted to make his point instead. He insisted on talking over me, interjecting with the second ‘but’ as my ...
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