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... that had haunted him for a quarter of a century. As dusk faded into night, the city stretched infinitely beyond view. Yet here within these walls, silence persisted, interrupted now and then by the faint murmur of traffic in the distance.

"Happiness has been illusory to me since I was a kid." he wrote, the pen carving the words into the thick, textured paper. He paused, running a hand through his unkempt hair, and glanced at the cracked mirror on the far wall. His reflection stared back— ...

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