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Seventy-Nine
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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“After everything that I said, you want to ask me why?”
“Why do you want to know where he is? He could have just left for all that you know.”
I shake my head, “He’s not like that. He would never leave us alone.”
“Why?” Gloc asks again, his question fueling my annoyance. I opened my mouth, words failing me. Why? Should there always be a reason over wanting someone to be safe? Should there always be reasons as to why you want to know where someone is? I start stuttering sounds that don’t even make sense. Like a start of a sentence that I don’t know the continuati
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