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The warmth, the smells, the pretending—it all felt wrong now, like I’d walked into someone else’s life and overstayed my welcome.
I slipped out before Miss Stella could stop me, my footsteps light but urgent as I moved through the corridor. No one called my name. No one tried to drag me back.
That somehow hurt more.
The doors to the garden stood open, letting in the late afternoon breeze. I stepped outside and inhaled deeply, like I’d been underwater and had only just ...
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