Tick Tock
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Complete Thu, Jan 4, 2018<5 mins
Time is a concept we take for granted. It's used in everyday conversations, and everyone assumes that everyone else knows what is meant by "time."
But what if one day you woke up and realized time had a different meaning? A meaning unknown to you but seemingly known to others? What if everything and everyone you had ever known was different? What if you were the one person chosen to fix what others couldn't see was broken? What if you were the only one able?
Would you imagine the worst? Would you be up for the challenge? Would you hide your head and deny anything was wrong? What if you did nothing and life as you knew it was slowly but steadily pulled from your grasp like the ocean tide at the end of the day?
Worst of all...what if you had been warned?
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