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Home for the Holidays

Submitted to Contest #283

Crystals fall around me, landing on the heads and eyelashes of children running to go see the latest toy in the window. The smell of pine and chocolate in the air. Parents drag screaming children away from the jolly fat man while teenagers drag their parents towards the apple store. I long for a time when I too would be climbing my way over other kids to see the new Barbie dream house or beg my parents for a new phone claiming that “Anne got one so I should!”. Anne. I should give her a call. She moved away after high school to what most woul...

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