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The Quiet That Shattered Us The first sign that something was wrong wasn’t the shattered lock or the overturned drawers—it was the silence. Our house felt unnervingly still, as if it were holding its breath, waiting for a secret to be discovered. At first, I blamed a careless gust of wind, or maybe Marcus had …
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