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The TV shows an ad for children, nothing special, nothing worth its attention. Harmless. But to Ben, it meant everything. The language, foreign yet carved into his very bones, rings in his ears like tinnitus. Russian syllables blur into one relentless mess inside his pounding head. He doubles over and squeezes his eyes shut hard, praying for the TV to explode, to vanish, to leave him the fuck alone.
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Soldier Boy is confronted with his deeply rooted trauma, and he isn't handling it well.

