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Nine DollarsMarcia H.The Manti Stories 04-07

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    He’s the first one to rush to the door when I ring, as always.“Nick! A whole year, not one call? Always too busy in the big city, aren’t ya?” He says it with a reprimanding tone, but his smile tells me he’s truly happy to see me. I pull him into a hug, still covered in snow from the seemingly neverending storm outside. After I take off my heavy winter attire, he takes me into the living room, where the kids are excitedly decorating the tree. The joyous expression on their little faces is the same one I can so clearly see on his.“Well, you didn’t call much either! But I guess you’ve got an excu...O9Sone door

    One Little Woman and a Chair

    Rainbow Sunshine Bailor was as unusual as her name. She was a small woman in size but big in personality. Rainbow was a small woman barely 5 feet tall. Rainbow was named after her great Aunt Bow and since her mom liked the rain she put the two things together and there got her name Rainbow.  Her middle name was her father’s idea since he called her Sunshine before she was even born. He would look at her mom’s growing belly and say, “How’s my little bundle of sunshine.”  Rainbow often wondered if her parents had a secret desire to be free spirits back in their day. She thought that they did giv...O9Sone door

    New Year's Resolutions Suck

    January 1st As the final fireworks of New Year’s Eve toppled over into New Year’s Day; Rosemary, Samantha and Julia poured another glass of bubbly, toasting to the year ahead. “What are your New Year’s Resolutions?” giggled Rosemary, tipping her drink in her lap. She was significantly drunk, but that didn’t stop her. “The same as they are every year”, announced Julia, “find a first edition of Pride and Prejudice, and become unbelievably rich – and stop biting my nails – that’s been the same since I was 13、” Samantha rolled her eyes “Come onnnnnnnn Julia, make some real resolutions for once!...O9Sone door

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