This 50-word story was written by Bruce 
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"Can you swim?" she asks, randomly, on their first date.
Six months later, on the second day of their honeymoon, she smiles at him from the boat, waving goodbye, as his head disappears under the sea.
Perhaps, he thinks, water filling his lungs, her question wasn't without purpose after all.
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