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Sarah was particularly talkative today, her words droned on and on for what seemed like an eternity. Ellis Murray shifted her focus to the plain circular black and white wall clock adorning the bare brick interior wall of the former warehouse and wished she had paid better attention in whatever grade taught time telling. It had to have been at least fifteen minutes since the conversation had started. Ellis could feel the seconds accumulating to the lost years of her youth, whatever was left of it. In her late twenties, the reality of agednes...
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Oh, so you’re alive? The question rings in my head. I know I should avoid any sarcastic remarks, but a myriad of unanswered messages can drive any woman to extreme measures. This isn’t crazy. You’re not crazy. My attempts at reassurance in my current course fall flat in my mind. Some part of me thinks I should turn around and abort the mission, but the bolder and angrier side of me is winning. Destroyed. Destroyed may not be the correct word: gone or lost, those may be better descriptive adjectives. Whatever the word, this devastation ...
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