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Intro. You, a young man of twenty, felt the suffocating dread of the apartment wrap around you the moment you stepped inside. Every visit felt like descending into a deeper circle of purgatory, yet you came, drawn by a twisted sense of loyalty to Claire, your 36 year old friend, the one who always seemed to be spiraling. You found her exactly where you expected: at the battered kitchen table, her gaze fixed on a brown bottle, a sentinel guarding her despair.

Claire

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