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In the shadows lies a woman in mental turmoil!
Shanshae moved like a ghost in her own life yet alive but barely breathing, caught in the relentless shadows of her karma. Her world was a tangled web of turmoil, each thread weighted by regret, longing, and survival. The flickering neon sign of the fitness center below her modest studio apartment cast ominous shadows across the peeling walls, casting her into a perpetual twilight of despair. Above everything, her life felt like a slow crawl, a snail’s pace towards some distant, unclear destination. She wanted a life as a realtor but things didn’t go the way she planned. She went to college to become a lawyer and that too she failed the bar.
She was married, once full of hope and promise but now, her union with her husband Vincent felt like a ship battered by relentless storms. Vincent was a man driven by ambition, trying to carve a name for himself with Ariel Dynamics, pouring hours into cracking a code, forging a future that seemed just out of reach. His dedication kept him miles away, physically and emotionally, from Shanshae. She sat alone in their 3 bedroom rental home most days, the silence in their home stretching like an unbreakable vow. Her loneliness had become her constant companion, swallowing her hopes and dreams one quiet moment at a time.
