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Submitted to Contest #279
It went something like this. Like a fleeting daydream you’ve unwittingly drifted out of, the continuous effort dedicated to scraping what little one can reclaim yields no fruit. The harder you try, the further your original thoughts obscure themselves. Only this time, what’s obscured would be the very existence of a person. One moment, they were here. The next—gone. That entire being had vanished—fizzled into oblivion. Tracelessly, as if no such person had ever existed. And with them, a root of yourself that had fused to their presence disap...
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