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forward, his expression tightening as if even sitting upright took effort.
“Long enough,” he said at last.
That answer didn’t comfort me.
If anything, it made things worse.
I took a step closer to the bed, my voice barely steady.
“Then why… why pretend?”
For a moment, his eyes softened.
Not toward me.
But toward something far away.
“Because the truth,” he continue reading …
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