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Had Enough

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Things got worse, so much worse that I ended up feeding Leon dry bread with water.

I had baked the bread myself, scraping together what was left of the flour. I tried to make it soft, tried to make it taste like love, but it was just dry, tasteless. That night, after I tucked Leon into bed and kissed his forehead, I went to my room and broke down.

I cried, not because of the bread, not because of the hunger, not even because of the silence. I cried because I knew I had to start rationing. Rationing flour. Like we were in a war. And in a way, we were. It just wasn’t being fought with guns, it was being fought with cruelty and hate.

What if this wasn’t the end?

What if his next retaliation was worse?

No gas? No electricity? No water?

I was terrified of what might come next. I was scared of how I was going to protect my son somewhere where even basics could be taken away at a whim.

I cried myself to sleep. And then...something touched my shoulder.

I shot up, heart pounding, thinking it w
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