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Night Traveller

Night Traveller

your rebellion in the end was against the day

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Dec 14, 2023
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There is a portion of almost every life where, through our grief and heartbreak, we not only lose the path but find ourselves not having the desire to find that path again, shorn as we are of what previously we loved or what made sense of our lives. Night Traveller was written to chronicle that darkness within a darkness, to which so…

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