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name. I should've felt free. This was what she wanted. What I gave her. But all I felt was rage. She was supposed to fight, Scream, cry and throw

me. I drank it in one long gulp. She was mine. She still is. The way she sat across from me earlier, so quiet, so still... it made me ang

nked too fast, holding in tears. She didn't speak, not really. Just whispered that she didn't ask for this. She didn't h

t mattered, her time her body, and her history. If she thought, she could walk away and find peace, she was wrong. I reached for my phone, opening the live camera fee

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