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She moved through the world like a rumor of herself. Half-present, half-dissolved, a shadow cast by a light that had long since darkened. Conversations washed over her in waves she could not catch, words arriving and departing without ever finding their aim.
Laughter in crowded rooms reached her like sound through water. Muffled, inaudible, meaningless in every way. She smiled on cue, nodded at the appropriate silences, but beneath the performance she was hollow. She behaved like a careful arrangement of rehearsed gestures. Pretending to be the remains of a complete person.
There had been a time when she felt truly connected, when her reflection in the mirror looked familiar rather than a stranger wearing her skin. Now, she couldn’t remember the last time she’d felt seen.
People spoke to her. But it was as if they were addressing a version of her, that had long since vanished. She wanted to reach out, to bridge the distance, but the effort seemed insurmountable.
Even in solitude, she felt no closer to herself, no real relief in sight. Her thoughts spiraled quietly, in an endless loop. But none of them felt like they belonged to her. She wasn’t sad exactly.
Sadness had a precious weight, a presence. What she felt was something lighter, emptier, as if she had been gently erased over time, leaving only a faint outline where she used to be.
This was the feeling of being slowly, gently redacted, sentence by sentence, until only the black redacted copy remained. She wondered if anyone noticed, if they could sense the absence of substance beneath the surface.
Maybe they did, and maybe they didn't.
Either way, the result was unchanged:
She was adrift, unmoored from the real world, ghosted in her own life.
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