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“It must have been lonely, being on your own all that time.” The phrase changes slightly with the speaker, but it’s probably the thing people have told Charles most often. “It must have been lonely”, the gang members say, as if Charles isn’t still feeling that way. The lonesome has seeped into his bones, hardening him. A solitary tree weathering the cold and the rain on its own, hardening it's bark a little more for every new ring inside the trunk.