Note to Contest Judges: More than seven weeks after I posted this story to fimfiction.net, this story DID turn out to be an entry in the "A Thousand Words Contest." (I was having trouble deciding which story to put into which official contest category.) I guess the point is, stories were not added to contest folder in the order of publication.

(Prereader thank-you in author's note.)
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