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They drove up to a beautiful house by the ocean, entered my birthday into a keypad, walked inside laughing, and discovered twenty minutes later that the invisible girl had spent years building a life they were never meant to touch.
The ocean said nothing.
The deputies said enough.
And I, at last, smiled without apologizing for the space I took up in the world.
THE END
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