When I hear the word “parachute” I think of two things: spy movies and extreme sports. Granted, I am the sort of person who has been working up the courage, and the funds, to go skydiving ever since I found out that my small hometown airport provided the service. It’s thrilling; the idea of jumping out of a plane at insane heights to feel the rush of the air go past as you hurtle to …

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He was nothing but a smile, the kind of smile that slid on and off every couple of minutes without any reason; just two rows of orthodontically ordered teeth that created a contagious pandemic of unwarranted happiness. Lucy could already feel her lips beginning to part. She hated it. How could he be the happy one? After all he had gone through with the cancer, he was still the one with the smile. Even the …

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