TWO: Ander

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I live alone at the edge of everything

I don't remember my parents

Or life before exile

I only remember my name

Ander

And the number of days I've been alone

3,762

Over ten years

Every morning I make another scratch in the wall

But I am running out of space.

They bring me my meager meals

Dumping the boxes through the chute

Every year they dump new clothes through there too

Sometimes they tell me things through the chute

Simple things

"Terrible."

"Monster."

"Should have been killed."

They think the words will make me feel something

Emotion

But I have never felt emotion

Ever

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