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Leo Hepis's avatar

Forgive me for laughing by the end of your story at the twist. What miserable people. Be happy you’re not like them, that most people in our neighborhoods are not like them. And good luck to them — these patterns are hard to change when they’re invisible

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Rick Lewis's avatar

I was waiting to see where this was going and you held the tension very well through to the end, with the surprise finish being so heartbreaking really, that these pockets of humans in the form of families wind up poisoning each other with toxic character traits, and that the husband properly also inherited from somewhere else in the first place! Sad, funny, poignant.

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