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Submitted to Contest #182
One of my most terrifying tasks as a boy was “picking off a switch” for my grandmother. This is the situation in which a rambunctious and nerve-grinding eight-year-old boy, as was I, pushes his caretaker, his “memaw,” past her emotional limits to a point at which she demands to inflict corporal damage upon the child’s backside. I recall scanning both the large and small trees lining the yard, looking for perhaps the flimsiest and least harmful branch that I could pull from the trunk. Notably, memaw would watch my efforts and warn me that if ...
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