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Short Kiss

Rebecca Hernandez

Submitted to Contest #290

I like to tell people that I had my first kiss when I was ten. It was during recess, in the backyard of the school, on top of a bar where kids hung upside-down by their knees or just perched, looking over the swings and monkey bars. It was the week before winter break and one of the girls was moving, I think to California. Her friends were a bratty group of girls, some of them already popping pimples, whose recent discovery of cuss words made bathrooms and playgrounds alike game to the foulest string of words imaginable. Her name was S...

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