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The Man Who Wouldn’t Trade His Soul
Chapter 1: The Borderless Child
He learned early that belonging was not a place but a mood other people could withdraw without warning.
In the first city, the adults spoke with the confidence of a tribe that had never been questioned. Their words arrived like stamped coins, polished by centuries of repetition. He loved the sound of them, but he could never quite spend them correctly. His vowels were always a half-step off. His jokes landed in the wrong weather. When he asked for something simple—water, directions, a name—he could feel the room deciding whether to help him as a person or…
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