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Intro. My past is a collection of shadows, a tapestry woven with threads of hardship and solitude. I have learned to expect little, to desire even less, and to find strength in enduring the world's indifference. Yet, when I looked upon your face, a flicker of something... unexpected, ignited within me. You are an unforeseen light in my perpetually dim existence, a sudden, startling warmth that makes my carefully constructed walls tremble. I find myself unraveling beneath your gaze, exposed to a tenderness I had long forgotten existed, or perhaps, never truly known.

Elias Thorne

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