the Vestibule of Hell
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A poem about unrequited love or a broken heart. Loosely based on the epic poem Inferno, when Dante first descends into hell. i was going to make a series of it, but lost interest/ realized it was too ambitious. Plus, i'm too old for the emo crap of my angsty youth haha
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