Every window ledge, sideboard, and coffee table in your home is filled with potted plants. Mostly they are cactuses.

You cannot remember when you first started buying and breading all these plants. Nevertheless, you dedicate most of your day to tending to them as if the world itself depends on it.

You are faintly aware that you know why you live like this but you have forced yourself to forget. That was part of the deal. A deal you must not remember.

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