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Nicholas Boothman
What if people couldn’t hide behind words anymore?
What if the body betrayed the lie before language could dress it up?
What if every polished answer, every legal evasion, every corporate statement and campaign speech and private cruelty met a simple, unavoidable exposure?
He thought of Cerulean.
He thought of Dr. Sharma.
He thought of forty-seven names turned into a communications problem.
He stood.
He had a sister to face. A truth to tell.
And, for the first time in his life, no idea how to make it sound better than it was.
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