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Moustapha Mbacké Diop

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New Year, Old Sorrows

Moustapha Mbacké Diop

Submitted to Contest #25

It was this time of the year again.As usual, I forced Quentin to go home, assuring him that I could hold the fort by myself. He insisted, but I knew he wanted to leave, to spend time with his delightful daughter. There wouldn’t be a lot of customers today anyways, only reckless people would want to buy a pet on the last day of the year. It did happen two or three years ago, on a particularly snowy day. The pet store had just opened, and I hadn’t decided yet to enlarge my selection of exotic pets, and there were only three sections then: the ...

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