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Disclaimer: This story contains themes that include mental health issues, violence, and suicide. I could feel them. The weight of the secrets of every person I passed on the rainy leaf-covered street. Most were completely insignificant, like a kiss with a colleague at the Christmas party, masturbation to questionable content, or stealing a few cents from the register when the boss wasn’t looking. Those didn’t interest me. No, I was searching for the ones followed by a shadow blacker than coal, a shadow only I could sense. I don’t remember wh...
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