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Tick, Tock

He just left me standing there, completely engulfed by the room, to watch our time to live tick down on the clock overhead. One minute of air left, and there wasn’t anything else we could do except slowly suffocate. The seconds seemed to pass in slow motion, nothing stirred except our breathing. There were so many things that I’d never said, that he needed to know. Thirty seconds..

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