They laughed when I got the rotting farmhouse.
They called it a punishment, a burden, a joke.
But the house my cousins mocked was the one place my grandfather had truly loved. I moved in alone, peeling back layers of dust and memory, until one day I found a hidden wall, a secret room, and a single metal cabinet mark… Continues…
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