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Submitted to Contest #317
The city moved like a machine around me; horns honking in the distance, strangers brushing past with their own carts and shopping lists, it was a tide I no longer felt lost in. For years, survival had meant shrinking myself down, contorting into spaces where I barely fit, holding my breath in a house where every word might set off a storm. Now life was wider, steadier. I had someone beside me who didn’t mistake silence for intimacy or control for care. We were here for groceries, nothing more, nothing less, and even that simplicity felt like...
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