Tiffany Chu
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Advent, Fog, and Beauty in the Unknown

I don’t know if I noticed the simple beauty of witnessing the first light of day at the time. The fog of grief still shrouded every corner of my mind. This trip was just another attempt to keep it from pulling me under. I ran toward the rising of the sun.
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