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Uncle
Title: Uncle
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 756 | Pages: 3.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Uncle
Uncle escaped. He took a handgun and descended into the cellar, and the
air resonated with the muffled sounds of a car backfiring. I hardly
knew either of them, he or Auntie. Daddy said he did it to get away
from her. That may be. Anyway, he left a fortune. A million, Daddy
said, at a time when a new Cadillac could be had for less than four
grand.
Today a Caddy is forty grand, …showed first 75 words of 756 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 756 total…The roast pan that rode home with us was old, the porcelain chipped away
in places. Almost rusty.
Years later, the last years of her life, I was informed that Auntie
roamed the halls of her abode, mindlessly, her existence of no more
value to her than the waste that she lived among.
I didn't mind.
And if that dooms me to regions inhospitable, I'll know how to enter,
won't I? With grace and humor.
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