Empty Gum Wrapper: A Short Story

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Cutter Coverdale
Second hour
One Ordinary Day, With Empty Gum Wrappers
Mr. Johnson slammed his door shut and came down the stairs into a super bright sunny day; a little too bright, Mr. Johnson did not like it. He proceeds to walk across the street to the newsstand and the corner store where he walked in and bought some gum took out all the actual gum and threw it in the street and stuck the wrappers in his pocket. He then saw a little black poodle with a white sock, walking in the streets, he kneeled down and picked it up. He then started walking as he walked, he walked past the newspaper printer and the cloths store and subway until he reached the dogcatcher very nonchalantly handed him the dog and continued to walk up the street towards the center of town. As Mr. Johnson was walking he happened to come across a poster that says missing dog black poodle with one white sock, he then grabbed the poster
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Johnson strolled into the hospital, he found an empty room with a man inside.
The man said, “What are you doing here?” Mr. Johnson then said, “I was just wondering around, why are you in the hospital?” The man then replied with, “I came in today because I had nausea, pain and fatigue, then they gave me a biopsy.” Mr. Johnson looked at the results next to the table and said “Sir you have cancer and it says you have five months to live.” He then handed the old man a gum wrapper and left.
Mr. Johnson then cruised outside and took someone’s taxi and told the guy to drive him home and he will pay extra, when he got to his apartment, he proceeded to get out and went up the stairs, walked in and sat down waiting for Mrs. Johnson an hour later Mrs. Johnson came in and said, “hi honey”
Mr. Johnson said “Hi how was your day, what did you do” Mrs. Johnson said “It was good I helped a mother daughter relationship and found a dog and cat homes today.” Mr. Johnson proceeded to tell his wife about his day. Mr. Johnson then said “Tomorrow we are switching and went to

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