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A thick layer of dust encased the console, seemingly trapping the original PlayStation in time. As Ryan stared at the simple gray box, she tried to remember the last time she’d seen it, let alone played with it. It had to have been with her brother, he was the one obsessed with video games. James would spend hours locked in his room staring at screens when they were growing up. On the weekends, their mom had to force him out of the house and away from the latest gaming console and game craze. Ryan never had the same connection to these virtu...
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