I slipped into a white cotton dress, its simple fabric draping loosely over me, soft against skin that had felt raw for days. It wasn’t glamorous, but it was clean, crisp, and somehow kinder than the shapeless clothes I had been drowning in lately. Over it, I pulled a cream coat, the tailored seams giving the illusion of structure, as though fabric alone could hold me together where my spirit had splintered.Sliding my feet into flat shoes, I left my hair loose. The strands fell in soft waves over my shoulders, catching the light as though mocking the shadows clinging to me. The looseness framed my face, blunting the sharpness grief and sleepless nights had carved into me.When I finally lifted my eyes to the mirror, I almost startled. A stranger looked back at me, a woman whose lips curved in the faintest, most reluctant smile. Melancholy, fragile, fleeting. I wasn’t glowing, not radiant, not anything close to the girl I used to be. But for the first time in weeks, I didn’t look like
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