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Submitted to Contest #316
Can you keep a secret? Yeah… me neither. But I have to tell someone. Since I can’t tell anyone who actually knows me, I’ll tell you—the stranger who finds this bottle. Ridiculous, right? Scrawling something this heavy on paper and tossing it into the ocean like I’m stranded on a deserted island. Odds are it’ll wash up as garbage. But at least I’ll have said it.Actually, I am on a deserted island. Not a real one—but that’s how it feels. Everyone around me carries on like nothing’s changed, like nothing’s wrong. They don’t know what I can do. ...
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