Alphabet Soup

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Hide-and-Seek

Hide-and-Seek

Playing the long game | Fiction | Fresh Soup

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There’s a story about a boy in a suburb of Haifa who was playing hide-and-seek with his neighborhood friends one day, and he hid so well that no one could find him. Or rather, no one even remembered that he’d hidden. The other kids finished the game and went home for dinner, while he stayed in his hiding spot, listening tensely for ever…

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