Today's OneWord: Cursed

"They say that the Proffer family was cursed back in 1891," said the old man who had decided to converse with me by the bus stop. "Have you heard of the Proffer family?"

"No," I replied. "I just moved here."

The old man wrinkled his nose and let out a warm rivulet of air from between his lips. "Lovely local family," he muttered. "Pity what happened to them. All over some silly Native American burial grounds."

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