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There is a particular kind of falling that doesn't announce itself. You don't wake one morning and find yourself at the bottom. Instead, you notice it sideways - in the way a friend's message takes longer to answer, in the way you stop checking whether the people you hold are still there. In the way you have ten cents and it feels like it should be enough, and then it doesn't, and then five days remain and you understand that you've been falling the whole time.