A 50-word #ZapfFic50 story by Bruce 
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Putting her eye to the small scratch in the frosting on the surgery window Dr Maras watches her wife sneak out for a clandestine cigarette before the next patient arrives. She pretends she doesn't know Lilly has started smoking again. And Lilly doesn't comment on the empty wine bottles, anymore.
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