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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The stolen hour pools beneath the streetlamp, damp asphalt drinking the phantom light. We unwind the taut spring of summer, let the gears groan backward through their teeth. Shadows stretch like taffy, pulling dusk across the threshold too soon. Each dial surrenders to the ritual theft~ morning owes us what the evening keeps.
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