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You are dead to me
Author: Brown
last update2025-04-13 06:58:03

Upon getting to the cemetery, a unique quality of the cemetery could be seen clearly. It was silent and wrapped in a thick, almost scared stillness. This quality have no particular time, attached to it as it is there all the time, even when people come in mass. One would wonder if the spirits don't communicate, or everything said about spirits are not true. Only the rustling leaves a d distant chirping of birds broke the stillness. One who still feels the need to love, may not be comfortable to stay there for an hour, but not in the case of Ryan Scott. He counts himself privileged to still be among the living, even though he doesn't know why, and he sees no reason to live.

Ryan stood, as his eyes fixated on the polished headstone. Scott Howard, it read, etched with the dates of birth and death that always felt too close. He swallowed hard.

He turned to his father's lover, Rosemary and who seem to have come prepared as she had a small bouquet of white lilies, trembling slightly In her
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