Heard It, But Too Late
What seemed plenty to others felt like poverty to her.
She turned to gambling, hoping to turn things around. Instead, she lost everything and fell into massive debt.
To escape creditors, she fled to a remote mountain village. Five years later, the police found her locked in a cellar, tortured beyond recognition. Her mind was shattered.
Ralph vanished. No one knew if he was alive or dead.
Three years later, when someone spotted him on a construction site, he was dark, emaciated, and crippled after falling from scaffolding because of hunger. Perhaps he thought it was atonement. To me, it was only childish and laughable.
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