He didn’t just leave; he erased me. The night he drove off, taillights shrinking into a red smear, I thought the worst thing that could happen had already happened. I thought rock bottom was a roadside, a hospital bracelet, a name written under “Emergency Contact” that no longer belonged to me. But rock bottom has basements, and basements have trapdo… Continues…
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