Chapter 9 · free to read
Every town keeps a room like this one. Ours simply admits it.
Apologies, resignations, confessions, one word somebody could not afford to spend. The whole town's unsaid, shelved and dated.
He had almost said it. Almost is this town's first language.
For the first three years of my life I had been somebody called Nao. And somebody had been writing to her ever since.
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