Nepenthe
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Nepenthe
[Ni-pen-thee]
(n.) Anything inducing a pleasurable sensation of forgetfulness, especially of sorrow or trouble.
Adeleine Brooks was lost. Though she wouldn't admit it to herself, she was. She didn't know what she had lost, but she was searching for it in all the wrong places.
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