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    It was something Shoko never understood— she doesn’t think she understands it even now, this need to prove their strength and power. Countless nights she has stayed up taking sips of whatever liquor she has been able to get her hands on, gulps that burn down her throat and make her gasp, drink after drink while a few months of her youth play inside her mind like an old movie. Sometimes she watches it through rose-tinted glasses and she allows herself to feel the sweet melancholy of a time when things seemed simpler. Other times the footage in her mind’s eye is dark and stained with regret, narrated by a resentful voice that sounds suspiciously sweet, suspiciously raspy, achingly familiar, gone:

    You could have done this. You could have noticed that. You could have done more. Why didn’t you? Shoko, why didn’t you?

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