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Nicholas Boothman
Chapter 21: Aveiro
At 19:06 UTC, the unexpected happened.
Not in the servers.
In the world.
In Aveiro, Portugal, a woman stood alone in her
small apartment, watching the spiral glow across
her phone. She had lived under her husband’s
thumb for thirteen years. Told what to wear. What
to say. Who to be. Her voice had been reduced to a
whisper inside her own mind.
Now, she whispered something back.
“I don’t belong in that story anymore.”
She opened her window, leaned into the evening
air, and said it louder:
“I am not the name they gave me.”
Two men on the street looked up. One laughed.
The other repeated it.
“I am not the name they gave me.”
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