A Secret too Painful to Say

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HERA I know it before I am even fully awake, before I even open my eyes. Without even needing to reach out and feel, I can just tell that he is gone and that when I do open my eyes, the other side of the bed will be empty. It may be because for as long as I can remember, I have always had someone I had to share my bed or sleeping space with. With my mother and my sisters when we had to squeeze into my grandmother's tiny house. With my little brother when he and I had to huddle together under leaking, abandoned sheds to avoid freezing to death in the night. And even with the other maids in the cramped up quarters that Averia’s chamber maidens were given and forced to share. I have always had someone there. And in the times when I would jerk awake in the middle of the night drenched

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