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Unexpected Trip Delays

Submitted to Contest #209

Unexpected Trip Delays By Sylvia Melvin The rising sun on Friday, July 21, 2023, illuminated a blue sky with a few puffy summer clouds and a temperature climbing into the low eighties—a perfect day to start the fifteen-hundred-mile trek from Maine back to our home in Florida. Our destination for the first leg of the trip was Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, an eight-hour drive in ideal conditions. But we didn't make it that far. Now, my husband hates to drive in Connecticut since he’s convinced the term kamikaze originated with that state's drive...

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