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Angst prompt idea.

A/N: I love angst. Don't ask me why. I just love angst. I breaks my heart in millions of pieces, but I still love it. So here's an idea.

Tbh, I think this prompt is awesome. It's heartbreaking but beautiful.

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A character gains something they desire, but knows they will lose it again.

This could be an object. A person (in an alternate universe, the victim of a love potion, a relationship simply doomed to fail for any reason) or something abstract (a blind character can see for a day, or a Flowers for Algernon plot).

Possible choices: They know exactly WHEN they will lose the thing, or they only know that they will lose it sometime (anywhere from within a week to so many years its loss may seem insignificant at the time.)

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For those you don't know Flowers for Algernon, here's a summary. (Thanks Wikipedia!)

" The story is told through a series of journal entries written by the story's protagonist, Charlie Gordon, a man with a low IQ of 68 who works a menial job as a janitor in Donner's bakery. He is selected to undergo an experimental surgical technique to increase his intelligence. The technique had already been successfully tested on Algernon, a laboratory mouse. The surgery on Charlie is also a success, and his IQ triples.

Charlie falls in love with his former teacher, Miss Kinnian, but as his intelligence increases, he surpasses her intellectually, and they become unable to relate to each other. He also realizes that his co-workers at the bakery, whom he thought were his friends, only liked him to be around so that they could make fun of him. His new intelligence scares his co-workers, and they start a petition to have him fired, but when Charlie finds out about the petition, he quits. As Charlie's intelligence peaks, Algernon's suddenly declines-he loses his increased intelligence and mental age, and dies shortly afterward, to be buried in a metal box in the backyard of Charlie's home. Charlie discovers that his intelligence increase is also only temporary. He starts to experiment to find out the cause of the flaw in the experiment, which he calls the "Algernon-Gordon Effect". Just when he finishes his experiments, his intelligence begins to regress to its state prior to the operation. Charlie is aware of, and pained by what is happening to him as he loses his knowledge and his ability to read and write. He tries to get his old job as a janitor back, and tries to revert to normal, but he cannot stand the pity from his co-workers, landlady, and Ms. Kinnian. Charlie states he plans to "go away" from New York and move to a new place. His last wish is that someone put flowers on Algernon's grave."