Mass Release For Wednesday!
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After the death of Dave's parents, he had been sent to a foster home, where he became an orphan. The other kids there, the adults too, they all saw him as a burden, a bad luck. It didn't matter that he was just a child; the labels were there, and they stuck.
The orphanage workers gave him no comfort, no solace. He was just another kid to be watched, another child to be ignored. He had cried in the early days, the overwhelming loneliness and grief making it impossible for him not to. But no one ever came to comfort him. No one ever told him it would be okay.
As time passed, the tears stopped. He had learned, as he grew, that there was no point in crying. It wouldn't change anything. The world wasn't going to change for him, and the people around him wouldn't either. So, he embraced the loneliness, pulled it close, and made it his companion. If he was going to live, it would be by his own rules. Alone.
