The Butcher
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Read between April 9 - May 10, 2025
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Doctors liked to say that stress killed, but Edward had decided that boredom was the real killer.
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Sweetbay Village might be fancy, but it was still essentially a storage unit for elderly people with nothing but time to kill until death came for them.
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was the most ambitious person she’d ever known, and she couldn’t deny that his drive was one of the things she was most attracted to.
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It was that feeling again, that sense of longing for something she couldn’t remember ever having.
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“Not everyone is all bad or all good. Good people do bad things every day, and bad people do good things every day.” It
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Like ducks on the water, it was all smooth sailing on top and paddling like mad underneath.
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Getting old sucked donkey’s balls,
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“You either accept it or you don’t,” Edward said. “But you won’t change him. That drive . . . it’s in his DNA.
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I don’t know how to be in this relationship with him anymore.”
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We always think we could be better, and you know what, that’s a good thing.