The Keeper
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The day the human race is destroyed by nuclear warfare, she is a child, hiding beneath the earth in a vast mountain bunker. Struck with the realization that she may be the last living person on the planet, she tasks herself with keeping safe the thousands upon thousands of artifacts stored within the bunker's walls. As she ages, fear keeps her stuck in a routine of life that is the only thing keeping her from going insane. Is her life meaningless? Is the plight of humanity all for naught? What is the purpose of life when our time here, as a species, is but a blip in the history of the universe, so small as to be insignificant? These are the questions she grapples with as time runs down the clock on her life. Will she die without knowing, but with a peace of mind only ignorance can manufacture? Or will she brave the world she has long assumed to be a wasteland?
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