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Weekly Contest #360
If you look back far enough, you can see where it began. The hollow feeling that starts in your chest, spreads down to every branch of your life; the emptiness, the lack of completion or satisfaction with it all. If you look back far enough, you can see it, so clearly as if it were a weed growing through your childhood– invasive, unnoticed, destructive. It starts quietly, subtly, in those nights as a child where you're alone and feeling so far away. That's when the dissociation starts, the alienation from all those other happy little kids. S...
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