A little girl conditioned to accept abuse as normal becomes a woman who sees red flags as invitations. When she meets a man fluent in the language of vulnerability, she follows him in, mistaking his adoration for being chosen.
She wasn't chosen.
She was a mirror.
Flesh of Fiction traces that unlearning, through the lies we're handed young, the ones we later hand ourselves, and the moment she finally stops apologizing for surviving.
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