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This was life, really lived, really experienced, a passage of magic that would flash before our eyes when we died.
Every dark space felt threatening, as if it contained and concealed something horrifying.
The tarantula sheds her skin once a year, the narrator explained, then seals herself away behind a wall of silk until her new skin has hardened. Only then can she re-emerge and start to feed again.
PTSD is where your brain remains in psychological shock, unable to shake off or move on from what happened to you.’
Alina was pretty sure the girl would either end up married to a millionaire or murdered in an alley. Her fate lay in the hands of men.
