Grief waited in the hallway like a verdict. The house did not creak or menace; it breathed, as if exhaling everything he’d never managed to say out loud. Each room felt staged for a confession I wasn’t sure I wanted to hear. But the more I looked, the more the walls seemed to speak in a quiet, stubborn present ten… Continues…
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