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Keeping close
At 03:00 o’clock in the night, she found herself standing before her parents’ bedroom door, her heart pounding in her chest like a drum. The house was eerily quiet, the only sound was the rhythmic breathing of her parents in the room. Her mother, she knew, always kept the key to the mysterious room close by. During the day, it was nestled in her pocket.
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