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Elias continued to visit. A few days later, another resident, Sarah, started visiting her brother in the wing. Then another, and another. The silence was broken.

"No," Elias replied, his voice shaking but firm. "I broke a curse." Elias continued to visit

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She wasn’t suffering from her disease; she was suffering from abandonment. she was to be kept there—fed

Elias’s wife, Clara, was now in the East Wing. She had dementia, and according to the town's rigid traditions, she was to be kept there—fed, watered, but ignored.

Elias spent his days in a quiet room, but the quiet was deafening.