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Submitted to Contest #324
CW: This story is (as will become obvious) not autobiographical, but it is however written as an outlet for the author's experiences, as a way to make sense of and healthily internalize them. It touches various subjects of mental health including depression, loneliness and suicide ideation and so a trigger warning is merited. I hope you find some worth in it. The sea was colored by the setting sun's red rays and the seagulls sang a lonesome song. It was almost as if they knew where the old man was going, or maybe this was merely the first ...
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