You do not always like who you are without the costumes. Sometimes you miss the shielding they gave you. But you keep a small thing—a postcard folded in the shape of a bird, a line of a song tucked in a notebook—and those hold you steady. The house did not take everything. It taught you how to carry what remained.

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You do not always like who you are without the costumes. Sometimes you miss the shielding they gave you. But you keep a small thing—a postcard folded in the shape of a bird, a line of a song tucked in a notebook—and those hold you steady. The house did not take everything. It taught you how to carry what remained.

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