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    Summary

    The battle was supposed to end with Vecna dead and all of his friends safe.
    Maybe injured, but alive.

    Mike didn’t remember the moment things went wrong.
    Only the moment he came back out.
    And Will didn’t.

    He learned the shape of grief the way other people learn a name.

    The cemetery became his second home.
    Hours spent there, talking to a stone that never answers, except in the ways he starts to imagine it does.

    Until November 6th, 1988.
    When Will answered back.
    And Mike realizes the worst part of losing someone isn’t that they’re gone.

    It’s that sometimes… they aren’t.

    Language:
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