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"Oh, yesterday started out just stellar. I got in the car, and there it was, glaring at me from the dashboard. SERVICE ENGINE SOON. Yeah, I&amp;#039;ll just back up the money truck and get right on that. The worst part is, I have to get on that. It could be something like a measly little hose (that&amp;#039;ll still cost me $100 in repair charges), but if I leave it, it&amp;#039;ll end up being a $1500 repair and then I&amp;#039;m really in trouble. There&amp;#039;s no way I&amp;#039;m sinking huge money into a beat-up minivan with 222,000 miles on it. Then I headed off to my semi-annual dental cleaning, only to be told that what I thought was a developing cavity is just not going to be that simple. I&amp;#039;d somehow cracked a tooth below the gumline (&amp;quot;Stress grinding!&amp;quot; The dentist warned, &amp;quot;it can do such damage!&amp;quot;) and now I&amp;#039;m looking at root canal. I have dental coverage, but it will only pay half. Swell. On top of that, I was just plain feeling crummy. I&amp;#039;ve got a big cold coming on, and I&amp;#039;m really, really achy. I need to be at work, though, so I went in. I sat down with my mug of hot tea, did my work, and come lunchtime, I was wishing I could crawl under my desk with a blanky and a pillow. I decided to pop into my home email account and give it a quick check. &amp;quot;CONGRATULATIONS!&amp;quot; The email said \u2013 only this time it wasn&amp;#039;t spam \u2013 it turns out that one of the few poems I&amp;#039;ve ever written has just won a monthly contest. It&amp;#039;s not a big cash award, or anything, but it does put me in the running for the annual prize. I decided last week, in my new-found resolve to just do things, that I would start entering some of my work in various writing contests. I write all the time, after all \u2013 there&amp;#039;s no shortage of material. I might as well get some more exposure, right? And maybe if I play my cards right, I&amp;#039;ll eventually win a prize that&amp;#039;s big enough to cover root canal and a car repair \u2013 or maybe send me on a vacation where I&amp;#039;ll meet a nice dentist who fixes cars in his spare time. Till then, I guess I&amp;#039;ll let my little light shine. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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