Amy giggles and it’s the most beautiful sound in the world. “Think of it like this. A long time ago, something happened to me. Something killed me. Now inside my body everything’s rotting. Well, they were rotting, but things are different now. I’m better.” “How were they rotting?” “I could smell them. Decomposing from the inside out. Nobody believed me.” “So that’s why you cut yourself?” “I guess, maybe, I don’t know, thinking back on it, it’s all so blurry, you know? If I could still bleed, then I could remind myself that it wasn’t real, that I was still alive.” “Did you want to be?” She
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