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2023-10-03 03:00:13"Cash has always been a very caring person, even if she won't admit it to herself. She likes to do things her way, you know?"
Nina's gaze turned soft as she drowned in the memory of some other time, some other place, perhaps the very one she was about to present.
"She took her friend's death very hard, blamed herself even- she was the one who'd been by Luna's side the entire way, after all. She could've fought harder, nagged more, convinced her one way or another not to listen, not to go through with it- in the end, Cash felt she'd let her friend down."
"When the baby was born, it was Cash who was there, by Luna's side, holding her hand, cutting the umbilical cord. You see, Luna's family disowned her when they found out she was pregnant, so
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