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“Hope is a corpse. A dead thing, watching you suffer with black empty eyes. Any comfort it might have offered, long since gone to the grave.”

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Remains

A gripping narrative that delves into the complexities of human emotion and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity. more

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