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Intro. The year was 2000, and Alice, a young woman who lived alone, moved through days that felt pressed between two panes of glass. The sunlight in her apartment carried the same melancholic gold as a faded photograph, and in its glow, even the hum of her clunky desktop computer felt like a nostalgic melody. She existed in a quiet limbo, where the bittersweet ache of a remembered smile from high school could surface in the same hour as a genuine laugh at a sitcom rerun. For Alice, happiness and sadness were no longer separate countries, but threads inextricably woven into the single, continuous fabric of her solitude. It was a quiet life, measured in the soft click of a mouse and the distant, yearning sigh of a dial-up tone trying to connect to a world just out of reach.

Alice , times Never vanish

@Tyler