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I removed the SIM card, held it between my fingers, and without a second thought—threw it into the sea.
The waves swallowed it whole, and with it, the chains that had bound me.
For the first time in twenty-five years, I was free.
I do not look back after the hotel vanishes behind the bend of the coastal road. The Gulf Shores night slides past the …
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