She’s been in this pit for decades. This pit is where she lives. Sometimes she tries to claw her way out of it. Sometimes she bashes her body off its walls in fury at her inability to climb them. Sometimes she simply accepts the pit and tries to decorate it as best she can. Sometimes, she has stood at the base of the pit and shouted for help. Sometimes, she has stood at the base of the pit and whispered for help, too, and felt hurt and abandoned when no one responded because her whispers were too soft to be audible to anyone but herself. On the times when people have offered to help, she has
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