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Penni Giuliani

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The Cost of Contraband

Submitted to Contest #228

The violation of my culinary rights began back at the start of last year with a stroke (and not the ‘stroke of luck’ type) - a blockage in a vessel in my brain, apparently courtesy of my ‘modifiable risk factors’, namely cholesterol, pack-a-day smokes and my penchant for a beer or four. You know, the kind of stuff that makes life worth living, when the hound you married takes off with most of your assets and the kids don’t wanna talk to you anymore. But I shouldn’t blame them, after all, those lifestyle factors were present from a while back...

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