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Karen McDaniel

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Please pardon me

Submitted to Contest #271

“Pardon me, but you dropped this,” she said as she handed me a ketchup packet that had fallen on the ground near my feet. She was gone before I could focus and place the familiar voice or even say thank you. It all happened so quickly that I was not sure it was real. But I was moved by her kindness.  The ketchup was for fries and the fries were for my Dad. I was headed on my shift to spend the night with him. He wasn’t eating well, so I always tried to tempt him with stuff he used to like to eat. It rarely worked, yet he seemed to appre...

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