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2024-10-29 19:42:56Nora returned to her condo and rushed straight inside the bathroom.
She removed her clothes hastily and climbed inside the bathtub that was already filled with cold water.
She rubbed her skin with the bath scrub till her skin turned red.
It was as if in this way it would wash off all her pain and endless humiliation she had suffered today.
At last, she was tired of all the scrubbing and buried her face in her knees.
Her shoulders trembled as she cried miserably.
A melodious ringtone resounded in the bathroom.
Her cell phone buzzed inside the pocket of her jacket.
The voice of the cell phone seemed to have not drifted past Nora’s ears.
The phone continued ringing, and it was only after she found the noise to be too irksome did she reach out for it.
Glancing at the bright screen, she saw it was her brother calling.
Nora hurriedly answered the call.
“Hello.” A magnetic
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