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<center><h1><p>ALIVE</p></h1>
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(align:"<==")+(box:"X=")[<p>I am</p>
<p>unforgivable.</p>]
(align:"<==")+(box:"X=")[I have done
](align:"<==")+(box:"=X")[something awful.]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[It has been exactly five days since I discovered I am not myself anymore,]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"==X==")[that I'm not much more than a dwelling. ]
(align:"<==>")+(box:"===XXXX===")[A haunt.]
(align:"<==>")+(box:"===XXXX===")[A house.]
(align:"<==>")+(box:"===XXXX===")[A home for someone]
(align:"<==>")+(box:"===XXXX===")[that isn't me.]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[That day makes me want to spit whenever I remember it.
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(align:"<==")+(box:"X===")[Sandra screaming through me at someone who can't hear her. She believes he has died and is possessing me. She's turning into a zealot.]
(align:"==>")+(box:"===X")[Cathryn stunned into silence. She can no longer trust her own judgement. She's always had a good head on her shoulders.]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[Jack and his stone cold face. He was there physically, but his mind was far, far away.]
(align:"=><=")+(box:"==X==")[Today, he spoke to me again.]
Not physically. Not in sound mind.
I think he was drunk again.
To me he says:
(align:"==>")+(box:"====X")[You've always been my best]
(align:"==>")+(box:"====X")[my most sweetest]
(align:"==>")+(box:"====X")[my loyalist secretary]
(align:"==>")+(box:"====X")[I was once weak you know that]
(align:"==>")+(box:"====X")[Once I held a gun and even when I had a perfect shot point blank I missed because I was fucking weak]
(align:"==>")+(box:"====X")[Thank god you can rely on me now]
(align:"==>")+(box:"====X")[You should be grateful]
I ask
why did you have a gun?
(align:"==>")+(box:"====X")[He pauses. Stares at his webcam, then down at his legs without moving his head.]
(align:"==>")+(box:"====X")[Says one word in a voice that he believes I do not hear.]
I put a name to that memory now.
A searing pain shoots through me, one that is not my own.
I wake back up and I tower above him. We are standing on the beach as the sun sets.
He is bleeding. (align:"==>")+(box:"====X")[I have a letter opener in my hand.]
(align:"==>")+(box:"====X")[I have not called the cops.]
(align:"<==")+(box:"X====")[Is this what you wanted, Jill?]
I'll never know.
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