They all smiled and looked happy despite the horrors I knew happened here…knew there were even worse things I didn’t know about. You would never guess that. Never guess the pain the man had caused, but most monsters were like that. They made you believe they cared, that they wanted what was best for you, made you believe they were the only answer, the only ones who could help you, when really, they were the ones who would break you. Monsters hid in plain sight, slowly chipping away at your choices, at your possibilities, and that was what the monster in his painting had done to every single
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