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“Death and its miserable sort of demise had crawled into his life at such a young, testing age and managed to stick around through the years—a kind of parasitic creature with tenacity and commitment and all the things Kai had never learned—keeping a constant heaviness in his mind, a blurring exhaustion never at ease.”

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