Anamnesis

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August 30,

It was a gloomy night, I was crossing the streets full of broken street lights, people hurriedly rushing back to their homes.

An old lady approached me and told me these exact words "Homo sine amore vivere nequit" and then she just walked away.

I was just tryna sank my mind into those words but I can't seem to comprehend them. I was lost in my thoughts when suddenly a man with dark brown eyes and wavy hair hugged me and I was about to push him but he whispered in my ear "Just stay for a minute, please".

I saw a group of men passed by as if they were tryna find someone and when they were out of sight I looked him deadpan in the eye and just walked away. I thought he would leave me after that but I was wrong, he tried to nag me about meeting him again soon so that he could thank me for helping him. I did not bother to answer but he shouted "Meet You in Versana Resto at 4! Mi Lady".

After a long tiring walk, I arrived at my house and ate dinner. When I was about to go to bed I saw an unfamiliar metal box under my bed.

"I don't remember having this in my room," I said and I slowly opened it and saw a locket with my face when I was a toddler beside me was an unfamiliar kid and at the back of the locket was the initials 'A&A'.

"A&A? Huh?" I tried to look for something in the box and saw a picture of my mom laughing and the other half was ripped apart.

The door in my room suddenly opened and it was my nonna.

"Alessandra it's already late why aren't you asleep yet?" she asked while frowning at me.

"I found something under my bed nonna" I replied and then she turned her gaze at the locket and picture I was holding with sadness in her eyes. She quickly grabbed those things in my hand and threw them in the trash can.

"Go back to sleep now, I don't want you to touch other things that your mom owns in this room understood?" I can't understand why she's acting like that but I just nodded in response.

I remembered that I and my nonna were inseparable when I was just 4 years old then suddenly she became cold and distant when my mom tried to leave with the guy she cheated on my dad.

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