Reality Realignment //ONC 2022
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ONC22: Prompt 70
His eyes were cold and lifeless as he stared at me.
You have no idea who I am, do you?
Mara is ready to be released from the hospital following a gunshot to the head. She should be dead, but was her miraculous recovery due to science or something very different?
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