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Submitted to Contest #317
[TW: Grief, death, substance abuse] You should be dead. Horror could not even begin to encapsulate the feeling that had begun to unspool with Thomas. Years of tightly wound pain snapped and began to unravel at the sight of her, she who would not be named. She who should be dead. And yet, a girl stood before him, the very image of his greatest sorrow. He had been there when she was encased in that wooden box, her legs spindly as they stretched down, never quite touching the end of her new home. The deep green of her favourite dress gleamed...
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