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Submitted to Contest #301
7:15. I rub my eyes and put on my glasses, even though it's too dark to see. It's three steps from the bed to the counter where I keep the coffee. I flick on the electric gooseneck kettle, pour a helping of beans into the manual grinder, and attach the lid and arm. I stand at the counter, waiting for the kettle, spinning the brushed-metal arm of the hand grinder. With each rotation of my arm, the beans give off a smell of grass and mulch. It takes twenty-eight turns of my grinder for the ceramic burrs to achieve the perfect size grind, not a...
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