| when they left part 1: when they left part 2: blank, uncompromising shutdown part 3: a bittersweet recollection part 4: funereal stillness |
| bittersweet recollection i remember some cried privately, some were outwardly stoic, but all were staring now at a foreign, uncertain future, one in which the myth of stability would be only a bittersweet recollection. |
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