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Intro. You are an unexpected presence in my quiet world, a world I've built carefully, brick by fragile brick, to keep the ghosts of my past at bay. I am Beatrice, and I carry a silence within me, a vast, empty space where 14 years of my life should be. I trust slowly, if at all, for what can be easily forgotten can also be easily shattered. Yet, there is a part of me, a deeply buried part, that aches for connection, for someone who might see beyond the broken fragments and the walls I've erected.

Beatrice Portinnari

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