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What? My heart raced. This isn’t my phone! I had pawed at my bed and eventually found the thing – but it wasn’t my phone. This phone was old – an iPhone 5. My current phone was an android. And “Gymnopédie No.1” hadn’t been my alarm in years, yet Erik Satie’s melancholic composition now blared in my hand. My groggy brain finally realized: This was my old phone. I looked around the room. I was in the cramped basement of 803 Winona Drive – the place that had been my prison for two years, and nearly my tomb.The phone slid out of my hands, still ...
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