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2024-10-29 19:42:56HUNTER
I even get worried with everything so perfect in my life, call me a pessimist if you want, I know it’s not about thinking I don’t deserve a slice of the so boasted happiness. Everything is about a clearly simple statement: I’m not used to gentleness, cuddling, never, from nothing and no one.
The beatings I got from life started early from my first years of life: my parents used to say I was a child with delicate health, my bones were too weak and no doctor could explain it. I barely walked, I didn’t play with my brothers. Till the day there was a fight between Adam and some boys from the other pack, he tried to face them all alone and of course, he got the worse of it. As he is my older brother, the role model I always admired and followed, without me even waiting to, I got in the middle of all the confusion. I
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