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Chapter 121 — The First Week

Author: Judith
last update publish date: 2026-06-14 15:41:15

The first week passed in the specific way that first weeks pass.

Not slowly — I had expected slow, had prepared for the particular, drawn-out quality of time that significant periods are supposed to have, the way important things are described as unfolding rather than simply happening. I had expected to feel each hour as a distinct and weighted thing, separately experienced, accumulated deliberately into the days.

It did not work that way.

The first week moved fast in the way of things that
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