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She shed a tear at the thought she might always be like this, hidden away in that barren home waiting for time to pass only to find out that she was all alone.
"Daddy!!!..." She cried out for him in her sleep again and again. Wanting nothing but to be in his arms once again, but she lost him… and it was her fault. She had chosen the path that led to this destruction.
On those nights, all she could do in those long dark hours was to find an enclosed place and compressed like a ball to shake until the tears subside. A hellish kind of isolation where her only company was the cold floor and darkness.
Soon her smiles were reflexive and her eyes were dull and oh so empty. When she laughed it sounded like the hollow laugh of a man about to die.
