EMOTION.EXE
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In a world where emotion can be extracted, Dr. Nathan Grey risks everything to erase his own pain. But when the experiment goes wrong, his grief, guilt, joy, and love take form-and one empty fragment, born from what's left behind, begins to change everything.
Emotion.exe explores the cost of trying to control emotion through science, and the haunting journey toward accepting every part of the self-even the painful ones.
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