Doubting his childhood
A memory flashed—one of his classmates laughing years ago when their teacher had said sitting down was safest. “That’s dumb. They’ll just stomp you,” the boy had joked. The words replayed in Andrew’s mind like an unwanted echo. For a split second, he almost laughed bitterly at himself. But despite the doubt, he felt a strange calm in following the only advice he had. Doing nothing was still doing something.
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