Hypothetically Speaking

This is a short story that I wrote for a school assignment, it contains violence and mental health issues etc, read at your own will:

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"Would you speak to the dead if you could?"

For almost a decade now, I've been in and out of psych evaluations, group therapies, mental institutions and so on, continuously attempting to cure a disease which has forced me to think of sleep as a luxury, pain as an old companion and peace as a dull fantasy.