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Weekly Contest #309
It's a heavy burden to carry: loneliness. It weighs upon your shoulders like an emotional grief. There is sadness, and emptiness, and longing. There lived one boy who knew this feeling all too well. He knew what it felt like to be isolated in a room full of people—stuck in that malaise fog that surrounded him that threatened to swallow him whole. It was a feeling all-encompassing—all-consuming. He lived on the third floor of a beach house apartment building. He and his parents had just moved there because of his dad's new job. His room was s...
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